Saturn's North Pole Looks Like Watercolor Painting Brushwork: Image Captured By NASA's Cassini Spacecraft

The universe is not only all about science, it has an artistic side as well. Example proving the statement is Saturn's North Pole, which looks like a watercolor painting. The space agency NASA not only likes to discover things from the universe but also likes to inspire about the artistic side of the universe, and presently the Saturn.

According to CNET, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured an image of the Saturn's North Pole. This image was captured in September, which led NASA to wax poetic in a release on Monday. The image shows the north pole of Saturn displaying the beautiful bands in it and the swirls which are present in it. This image clearly looks like a watercolor painting brushwork.

The image shows the iconic hexagon for Saturn. The different shade of the band in Saturn's North Pole originates from the different air flow speeds and the heights of the clouds. When these two meet and flow past each other, this eddies and swirls get produced.

Gizmodo calls Saturn as the golden retriever of the solar system. This is because of the artistic view of Saturn's North Pole. Saturn's defining hue was pure golden in color or it can be called "alien proto-molecule blue". The artistic form of the planet was tweeted by Jason Major, a space enthusiast.

When Cassini captured the image of Saturn's North Pole, it was located around 890,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) away from Saturn. The mission was launched in the year 1997 with joint efforts from NASA, Italian Space Agency and European Space Agency. The mission is scheduled to end in the year 2017 but the spacecraft is still studying Saturn and its number of moons. After ending of the mission, Cassini will jump into Saturn's atmosphere. This polar vortex looks like an artistic painting in the universe.

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