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Juramike View Member Profile	Jul 17 2008, 12:13 PM Post #16
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2606 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345	Beautiful work, Gordan! -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/

JRehling View Member Profile	Jul 17 2008, 08:51 PM Post #17
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1513 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 321	That is the scariest picture I've seen from anywhere in the solar system (besides Earth).

belleraphon1 View Member Profile	Jul 19 2008, 08:08 PM Post #18
Member Group: Members Posts: 713 Joined: 29-December 05 From: NE Oh, USA Member No.: 627	Yes UGORDAN... thanks indeed... Driving home from work these past few days, I see all these wonderful afternoon cumulus clouds gracing the Ohio sky. My mind wanders to Saturn skies..... the perpetual puffs of cumuli, roiling from the internal furnace below... what a joy it would be to fly a plane through those, and then find oneself over that great, yawning abyss of the southern vortex... Can hardly wait for the northern hexagon to peek into sunlight after, what ... more that 7 years of polar night. My goodness... what beauty abounds out there... I never get complacent. Each place we explore, all filled with wonders galore. Craig

tty View Member Profile	Jul 19 2008, 09:13 PM Post #19
Member Group: Members Posts: 683 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 273	I think you should submit it to APOD.

djellison View Member Profile	Jul 19 2008, 09:17 PM Post #20
Administrator Group: Chairman Posts: 13245 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1	I've never submitted stuff to APOD. They just find the version of the creation that isn't quite finished, post it, write a caption for it that doesn't give the right acknowledgements, and isn't entirely accurate and don't tell you. Then, the first you hear about it is someone emailing you to tell you that the caption is wrong for that image you sent to APOD. That's what's happened to me. Twice.

nprev View Member Profile	Jul 19 2008, 10:18 PM Post #21
Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 6476 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602	That's a beauty indeed, Gordan! Trying to remember the scale here in NASA "big-as" terms so I can wow my co-workers with this on Monday. IIRC, the entire vortex is about the same size as the diameter of the Earth? If so, those subsidiary hurricane-like storms are pretty honkin' big as well... -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.

siravan View Member Profile	Jul 20 2008, 06:03 PM Post #22
Member Group: Members Posts: 102 Joined: 10-December 06 From: Atlanta Member No.: 1472	I know the south vortex is supposed to be smooth (circular or elliptical), but I cannot help to notice it in the ugordan's image that the vortex is in fact polygonal (24-gon maybe?).

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Oct 14 2008, 05:31 PM

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Impressive new pictures of south storm with new details.
http://ciclops.org/view_event/91
I tried to improve the edge-on noisy picture without impact too much on details:

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