Saturn's HUGE storm.

Hello to you all, this is my first official thread since the 20 posts count!

This is something I've been meaning to post for the past few weeks. I think I've done my research correctly enough to be sure that this has not been posted here yet.


I originally found out about this in a French newspaper website ( cyberpresse.ca ) which explained that a MASSIVE storm was currently active on Saturn.

Not only is it massive, it's getting BIGGER.




The following quote is taken fromthis article that I had to find to better suit the language needs of ATS.

PASADENA, Calif. – Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth. On Dec. 5, 2010, Cassini first detected the storm that has been raging ever since. It appears approximately 35 degrees north latitude of Saturn. Pictures from Cassini's imaging cameras show the storm wrapping around the entire planet covering approximately 2 billion square miles (4 billion square kilometers).

And we think that we get some pretty bad storms here on earth...

edit : I am looking to make my posts as enjoyable to read as possible. If you see any corrections that I could make, I most certainly am open to suggestions!

Wow, I knew about this storm but never knew it was so big!

Thanks for the post!

Yeah Saturn is a pretty amazing planet, and I find the hexagonal storm on the north pole the most intriguing.

Wow, I heard of the storm on Saturn but never saw a picture that actually put it all into perspective

Wow!

To be honest, I have seen that picture elsewhere, right here on ATS as it happens, but not with an explaination. I believe it was in one of the many pro-nibiru/elenin posts that populate the forums, and the OP suggested that it was caused by one of the afformentioned objects on it's way past. If I can find the thread I'll post it here.

In any case, your post was informative and the fact that you found a new source soley because of the language of the site shows - to me at least - that you're willing to put that little extra effort, so good for you

All in all, a good first post and await your next... make it snappy!

Congrats man!

Kyle

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That image you posted is just magical......... amazing beauty when considering the sheer scale of the planet and the 'event'..

Cheers

PDUK

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Originally posted by kai22
To be honest, I have seen that picture elsewhere, right here on ATS as it happens, but not with an explaination. I believe it was in one of the many pro-nibiru/elenin posts that populate the forums, and the OP suggested that it was caused by one of the afformentioned objects on it's way past. If I can find the thread I'll post it here.

In any case, your post was informative and the fact that you found a new source soley because of the language of the site shows - to me at least - that you're willing to put that little extra effort, so good for you

All in all, a good first post and await your next... make it snappy!

Congrats man!

Kyle

Thanks!! I really appreciate the feedback! I work in an environment where explanations play a big part when it comes to doing a good job.

Back to the subject I think this goes to show that we still have so much more to learn about the planets in our own solar system before really getting a grasp of how things work elsewhere in the universe.

If I may post here is footage, which has been posted on you tube, dont know if it is related.



Interesting would you not say

Oh blah what am I doing wrong?

Here is the link any ways sorry about that ladies and gentlemen,

Saturn Superstorm

Originally posted by Laurauk
If I may post here is footage, which has been posted on you tube, dont know if it is related.

Interesting would you not say

Oh blah what am I doing wrong?

Here is the link any ways sorry about that ladies and gentlemen,

Saturn Superstorm

edit on 11-7-2011 by Laurauk because: (no reason given)

It is related as it is exactly what I posted. The video gave an interesting close up on the storm. I like the way the storm looks on Saturn. You would never see a storm look this way on earth (if a picture is taken from space).

Must be a pretty brutal storm!

Can something like this even be called a "storm"? Because I don't think this is like any kind of storm you would find on earth. Saturn is a gas giant which basically means that it's filled with liquid gases (with iron core, supposedly), not an atmosphere like what know here on earth.

In fact, if somebody could even explain how lightning can occur a planet like Saturn, i'd be most interested to learn.

I'll tell you what this looks like to me. It looks more like a disturbance of the the liquids on Saturn, like an earthquake or a volcano or a life form moving the liquids around. Certainly something is stirring the planet up and it's cause IS a mystery. Calling it a "storm" is really just a guess by the scientific community.. IMO

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is that storm as large as the hexagon storm on the pole of the planet Saturn?

reply to post by indigothefish


Oh yeah! This is much bigger then the Hexagon .

According to NASA, this thing is "1.5 billion square miles"! NASA
The hexagon is "nearly 25,000 kilometers", which is small in comparrison.. Hexagon

To quote the article this "storm is about 500 times larger than the biggest storm previously seen by Cassini" and that includes the Hexagon storm.

Originally posted by indigothefish
reply to post by spaceshrimp

 

is that storm as large as the hexagon storm on the pole of the planet Saturn?

I think it's bigger. I didn't make the full equation, but with a bit of web research (wikipedia is the only source I found with numbers about the hexagon storm) I would say that it's even WAY bigger.

Originally posted by NWOPrimate
Can something like this even be called a "storm"? Because I don't think this is like any kind of storm you would find on earth. Saturn is a gas giant which basically means that it's filled with liquid gases (with iron core, supposedly), not an atmosphere like what know here on earth.

In fact, if somebody could even explain how lightning can occur a planet like Saturn, i'd be most interested to learn.

I'll tell you what this looks like to me. It looks more like a disturbance of the the liquids on Saturn, like an earthquake or a volcano or a life form moving the liquids around. Certainly something is stirring the planet up and it's cause IS a mystery. Calling it a "storm" is really just a guess by the scientific community.. IMO

Found this link talking about lightning on Saturn

edit : also found this more recent link

Great thread and thanks OP.
I read they said there was lightning at the rate of thousands of events per second?

And RAIN?

Is this water rain?

The article I read didn't specify, so I summise its some sort of acid rain?

When I was young with a 70mm refractor I once saw saturn...just....but still wow.

Haha maybe one of these days we will have something similar happen here on earth!