Monster storm on Saturn |
Monster storm on Saturn |
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Nov 9 2006, 07:09 PM
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http://ciclops.org/view_event.php?id=57
A hurricane-like whirlpool with a well-developed eye ringed by towering clouds, a phenomenon never before seen on another planet, has been sighted by multiple Cassini instruments at Saturn's south pole. |
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Dec 15 2006, 11:05 AM
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The vortex would be a *BAD* place to go for a probe trying to answer the big questions about deep atmospheric composition. Like the 'blue hot spot' on Jupiter that the Galileo probe accidentally descended into, the vortex is a down-welling zone of clear, dry air, equivalent to a high pressure airmass on earth's surface. The descending air has been "wrung out" of water and other condensible vapors and is not chemically representative of the deep interior, the way rising air coming up from great depth under a cloud deck would be.
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