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Saturn Cloud System

Lit from below by Saturn's internal thermal glow, clearings in the planet's cloud system appear as white pearls. The regularity of the clearings suggests that they may be a manifestation of a large planetary wave.

Photograph courtesy NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

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