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| Monster hurricane watch at Saturn's North Pole |
| 2013-05-01 |
| [An Nahar] NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured stunning views of a monster hurricane at Saturn's North Pole. The eye of the cyclone is an enormous 1,250 miles (2,010 kilometers) across. That's 20 times larger than the typical eye of a hurricane here on Earth. And it's spinning super-fast. Clouds at the outer edge of the storm are whipping around at 330 mph (531 kph). The hurricane is parked at Saturn's North Pole and relies on water vapor to keep it churning. It's believed to have been there for years. Cassini only recently had a chance to observe the vortex in visible light. Scientists hope to learn more about Earth's hurricanes by studying this whopper at Saturn. Cassini was launched from Cape Canaveral in 1997 and arrived at Saturn in 2004. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 The Vid is so awesome - I would say the storm is so huge it might easily extend beyond the range of Earth + Moon together. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-05-01 19:49 |
| #8 Let's send FOX's Shep Smith up for a live on the scene report. |
| Posted by: jpal 2013-05-01 19:42 |
| #7 this vortex has been there for several years but the NH of Saturn has only recently entered its 'spring' and thus, up until just a few months ago there were more imaging issues JPL has a nice video on youtube here |
| Posted by: lord garth 2013-05-01 12:33 |
| #6 I was wondering where Al Gore went. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-05-01 09:34 |
| #5 Beat me to it, Frank. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2013-05-01 09:17 |
| #4 I blame Bush |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-05-01 08:39 |
| #3 The hurricane is parked at Saturn's North Pole and relies on water vapor to keep it churning. An intriguing revelation. Perhaps we should ask Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson to assume the NASA mission after all. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2013-05-01 03:26 |
| #2 No - must be global cooling, like back in the 1970's... |
| Posted by: Raj 2013-05-01 02:10 |
| #1 Man Made Global Warming |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2013-05-01 01:54 |