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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSaturn hurricane has 1,250 mile-wide eye
Posted by Jason Samenow on April 29, 2013 at 3:56 pm
NASA has obtained first of its kind imagery of a truly gargantuan storm on Saturn with an eye that spans the equivalent distance of about Washington, D.C. to Dallas.
Like hurricanes on Earth, NASA says, the eye is mostly cloud-free.
Other similar features include high clouds forming an eye wall, other high clouds spiraling around the eye, and a counter-clockwise spin in the northern hemisphere, NASA writes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/04/29/saturn-hurricane-has-1250-mile-wide-eye/
NASA has obtained first of its kind imagery of a truly gargantuan storm on Saturn with an eye that spans the equivalent distance of about Washington, D.C. to Dallas.
Like hurricanes on Earth, NASA says, the eye is mostly cloud-free.
Other similar features include high clouds forming an eye wall, other high clouds spiraling around the eye, and a counter-clockwise spin in the northern hemisphere, NASA writes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/04/29/saturn-hurricane-has-1250-mile-wide-eye/
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Saturn hurricane has 1,250 mile-wide eye (Original Post)
MrScorpio
May 2013
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burnodo
(2,017 posts)1. Kick for great pics
That's a big hurricane!
nt
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)2. Wow!!!!
malaise
(268,998 posts)4. I saw that and it nearly blew my brain
Now that's a fugging hurricane
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)5. Wow.
Initech
(100,075 posts)6. Damn!! That is one scary looking storm!
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)7. Crazy....it's like from another world
Oh...it is another world