Giant hurricane on Saturn

[eddie]

I thought this picture taken by the Cassini spacecraft of this storm was pretty wild! The eye of this storm is 1,250 miles across, and wind speeds at the outer edge are 330 miles per hour.

If we had a storm this size here on earth, there wouldn't be any place to hide,lol

http://news.msn.com/science-technology/giant-hurricane-hits-saturns-north-pole

[Sailor Steve]

That's something else. :sunny:

[Takeda Shingen]

Thoughts and prayers to the people of Saturn.

[Cybermat47]

It appears to be a Romanian hurricane :hmmm:

http://imageshack.us/a/img543/466/hurricaneonsaturn.jpg

[Stealhead]

It appears to be a Romanian hurricane :hmmm:

http://imageshack.us/a/img543/466/hurricaneonsaturn.jpg


It is a good thing you are young and still have a few years to work on your jokes.

You have some way to go before you are on the same level as Oberon the master of perfectly timed and hilarious posts of this nature.

"A" for effort though.

[Sailor Steve]

Why do people always feel the need to quote a huge picture when theirs is the very next post?

[Red October1984]

OH MY GOD! HOW MANY WERE INJURED IN THIS TERRIBLE DISASTER THAT WE SHOULD TOTALLY BE WORRIED ABOUT?

Saturn now...our kids tomorrow.... :timeout: :timeout:

Help me raise awareness for interplanetary storm sys-

Oh wait....

Nobody cares.... :03:

[Stealhead]

Why do people always feel the need to quote a huge picture when theirs is the very next post?


Sorry, I forgot to delete it I did not think anyone would be that bothered recon I was wrong.Its not excatlly a huge photo.

[Mork_417]

Very interesting, that thing is huge! Thanks for posting Eddie. :up:

[Dowly]

Yup, Saturn likes to show off. :yep:

These are from 2012:
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/11/28/cassini_saturnnorthpolehex.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/11/28/cassini_saturnnorthpolevortex.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg

[Mork_417]

Just wish my telescope was strong enough for me to see it in that detail. :drool:

[Wolferz]

The funniest thing about the article is the headline...

" Giant hurricane hits Saturn's north pole"


Then you get down into the subject matter and it's mentioned that they believe the phenomenon has been parked there for years.:hmmm:

Quick! Let's waste a couple billion more dollars on a probe to go check it out. The more we learn about weather on Saturn...

Never mind.
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb295/Wolferz_2007/cid_1C3AA6F478F94037A7C035B1BF7CA0B0shewolfPC_zps3 d539aec.gif (http://s205.photobucket.com/user/Wolferz_2007/media/cid_1C3AA6F478F94037A7C035B1BF7CA0B0shewolfPC_zps3 d539aec.gif.html)

[Sailor Steve]

Sorry, I forgot to delete it I did not think anyone would be that bothered recon I was wrong.Its not excatlly a huge photo.
Technically it's not that big a deal, but when you've seen the same pictures quoted four or five times on the same page, as I have, you react to each and every one.

Or at least I do. Just my opinion.

[AVGWarhawk]

A storm like that, here on Earth, would completely wipe the face of the planet clean. What awesome power this storm on Saturn is exhibiting. I feel....very insignificant.

[WernherVonTrapp]

The funniest thing about the article is the headline...

" Giant hurricane hits Saturn's north pole"


Then you get down into the subject matter and it's mentioned that they believe the phenomenon has been parked there for years.:hmmm:

Quick! Let's waste a couple billion more dollars on a probe to go check it out. The more we learn about weather on Saturn...

Never mind.
I believe Cassini found a similar storm at Saturn's SP a number of years ago. Still pretty impressive, though not as impressive as Jupiter's perpetual spot.

Size Comparison:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Jupiter-Earth-Spot_comparison.jpg/699px-Jupiter-Earth-Spot_comparison.jpg

[Jimbuna]

A storm like that, here on Earth, would completely wipe the face of the planet clean. What awesome power this storm on Saturn is exhibiting. I feel....very insignificant.

Ditto :yep:

[TLAM Strike]

Saturn is a very interesting planet. :)

An image of the light generated by the thermal energy emitted by Saturn (and refracted by the rings):
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/5862/neonsaturnpia09212.jpg

[August]

Saturn is a very interesting planet. :)

An image of the light generated by the thermal energy emitted by Saturn (and refracted by the rings):
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/5862/neonsaturnpia09212.jpg

Just curious but if the light is being generated by the planet then why the shadow?

[Dowly]

Just curious but if the light is being generated by the planet then why the shadow?

It doesn't emit that much light. The red/black part is the night-side, so the shadow of the planet is visible on the rings as the Sun's shining from the left.

IIRC, it's a mixture of infrared image and.. err.. something else. Probably magic. :hmmm:

[magic452]

It doesn't emit that much light. The red/black part is the night-side, so the shadow of the planet is visible on the rings as the Sun's shining from the left.

IIRC, it's a mixture of infrared image and.. err.. something else. Probably magic. :hmmm:

I had nothing to do with it.

Magic

[Mork_417]

Was it X-Ray then?

[TLAM Strike]

Just curious but if the light is being generated by the planet then why the shadow?
Because there is still sunlight in the image.

Was it X-Ray then?
I think it is UV down though IR.

[August]

Because there is still sunlight in the image

I'm no science guy at all but isn't that like saying "See the burning candle in front of the searchlight? :)

[eddie]

I'm no science guy at all but isn't that like saying "See the burning candle in front of the searchlight? :)

LOL:haha: