Image:Saturn polar vortex.jpg

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Description	This is the sharpest image of Saturn's temperature emissions taken from the ground; it is a mosaic of 35 individual exposures made at the W.M. Keck I Observatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii on Feb. 4, 2004. The images to create this mosaic were taken with infrared radiation. The black square at 4 o'clock represents missing data.
Source	http://www.nasa.gov/centers/jpl/news/saturn-020305_prt.htm
Date	Feb. 4, 2004
Author	NASA/JPL
Permission ( Reusing this image)	PD-USGov-NASA

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current	15:44, 24 April 2008	516×384 (74 KB)	Spiritia	(== Summary == {{Information \|Description= This is the sharpest image of Saturn's temperature emissions taken from the ground; it is a mosaic of 35 individual exposures made at the W.M. Keck I Observatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii on Feb. 4, 2004. The images to c)

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Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	300 dpi
Vertical resolution	300 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop 7.0
File change date and time	10:01, 1 February 2005
Colour space	65535

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