Giant hurricane on Saturn
 

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-technolo...rns-north-pole

That's something else. :sunny:

Thoughts and prayers to the people of Saturn.

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.

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

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:

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.

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

Yup, Saturn likes to show off. :yep:

These are from 2012:
http://www.slate.com/content/dam/sla...l-original.jpg

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/sla...l-original.jpg

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

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/b...ps3d539aec.gif

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.

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.

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/wikipedi...comparison.jpg