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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP13 May 2013 4:03 p.m. PST

"This spectacular, vertigo inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. Low-lying clouds circling inside the hexagonal feature appear as muted orange color. A second, smaller vortex pops out in teal at the lower right of the image. The rings of Saturn appear in vivid blue at the top right.

The images were taken with Cassini's wide-angle camera using a combination of spectral filters sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light. The images filtered at 890 nm are projected as blue. The images filtered at 728 nm are projected as green, and images filtered at 752 nm are projected as red. At Saturn, this scheme means colors correlate to different altitudes in the planet's polar atmosphere: red indicates deep, while green shows clouds that are higher in altitude. High clouds are typically associated with locations of intense upwelling in a storm. These images help scientists learn the distribution and frequencies of such storms. The rings are bright blue in this color scheme because there is no methane gas between the ring particles and the camera…"
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Incredible beautifull!.

Hope you enjoy the real Vortex.

Amicalement
Armand

Feet up now13 May 2013 4:05 p.m. PST

I once killed an Eldar avatar with a Vortex grenade tooting Ork Kommando nob and a wierdboy doin Kop Dis.
Those were the days.lovely Image

Coelacanth13 May 2013 4:08 p.m. PST

Hope you enjoy the real Vortex.

They have amazing burgers!

thevortexbarandgrill.com

Ron

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