Saturn's northern hemisphere PIA01365
This false colour picture of Saturn’s northern hemisphere was assembled from ultraviolet, violet and green images obtained Aug. 19 by Voyager 2 from a range of 7.1 million kilometers.

The several weather patterns evident include three spots flowing westward at about 15 meters-per-second. Although the cloud system associated with the western-most spot is part of this flow, the spot itself moves eastward at about 30 meters-per-second. Their joint flow shows the anti-cyclonic rotation of the spot, which is about 3,000 km in diameter. The ribbonlike feature to the north marks a high-speed jet where wind speeds approach 150 meters-per- second.
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Image Credit: JPL, NASA