The recently formed south polar vortex stands out in the color-swaddled atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in this natural color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
See PIA14919 and PIA14920 to learn more about this mass of swirling gas around the pole in the atmosphere.
Images taken using red, green and blue spectral filters were combined to create this natural color view. The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on July 25, 2012, at a distance of approximately 64,000 miles (103,000 kilometers) from Titan. Image scale is 4 miles (6 kilometers) per pixel.
Photo credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
Note: For more information, see Ice Cloud Heralds Fall at Titan's South Pole.
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