Saturn’s north polar hexagon basks in the Sun’s light now that spring has come to the northern hemisphere. Many smaller storms dot the north polar region and Saturn’s signature rings, which appear to disappear on account of Saturn’s shadow, put in an appearance in the background.

The image was taken with the
Cassini spacecraft‘s wide-angle camera using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 750 nanometers.