Spacecraft beams back images of Saturn hurricane

[steve2470]

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20061110/hurricane/20061110?hub=SciTech

At the south pole of Saturn, a massive hurricane-like storm with a diametre of 8,000 kilometres, is raging.


The gale was captured by NASA's Cassini space probe, and is the first hurricane ever detected on another planet.


The dramatic images show a large storm mass with concentric circles leading into the core of the disturbance, which resembles a human eye.


Scientists say that the eye, and cloud formations within the storm, are characteristic of a hurricane with winds swirling clockwise at a tremendous 550 kph.

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[Dogmudgeon]

1. The Big Picture, and link to movies

Hurricane on Saturn photographed by Cassini-Huygens

Click here for page with video links

--p!

[Rex]

2. Wow!

Our planets are amazing!

[originalpckelly]

4. How do you know that they're our planets?

What if someone owns Saturn? Grand theft planet gets you life last time I checked.

[kineneb]

3. Space is big, really big.

-Douglas Adams (RIP)

'way cool.

...and some folks still worry about placating a local, anthropomorphic diety...