Check out the most intense Saturn violent storm that the Cassini spacecraft has ever recorded . you may see it overtaking its own tail as it zooms around Saturn ’s northerly hemisphere . ( The tail is the blue clouds to the South and West . )
The tempest started calendar month ago , and is still active today . The tempest ’s airfoil area is eight times the open surface area of our own planet . And at its most intense , the tempest has generated more than 10 lightning flashes per secondly . It covers 500 times the area of the prominent of the Southern hemisphere storms Cassini has observed — there were several violent storm in the Southern region scientist dub “ tempest alley , ” but the cerebral hemisphere tack around August 2009 , when the Northern hemisphere get have spring .
pronounce Georg Fischer , the lead author of a paper about this raw violent storm :
This storm is thrilling because it shows how shifting seasons and solar illumination can dramatically stir up the weather on Saturn . We have been observe storms on Saturn for almost seven years , so track a tempest so different from the others has put us at the sharpness of our hind end .
stop out a couple more paradigm of this mad violent storm in our gallery , and learn more details at the connection .
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A false colouration image from Cassini of a day in the living of a immense storm that developed from a tiny spot that appear just 12 weeks ago in Saturn ’s northern mid - latitudes . ViaNASA .
A composite near - genuine - colour view of the violent storm roil through the ambiance of Saturn ’s Northern hemisphere . ViaNASA .
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