The stain on the nature of Saturn
According to a gigantic storm on Saturn that is raging more violent than any on earth has been observed in detail the unprecedented, and the Daily Mail. Was composed of ammonia clouds bright white and stretched 10,600 miles - The Great White - or GWS. The scientists said their emissions based on radio waves, and lightning bolts Saturn and 10,000 times more powerful than their counterparts on the ground. Occurred when the rate also does not believe, peaking at ten flashes per second. Most people are familiar with Great Red Spot massive storm system in the atmosphere of Jupiter that has fascinated astronomers since the invention of the telescope. Great White Spot of Saturn is not a permanent feature, but does not happen only once around the Earth each
year 30.
Have been documented of these five events in 130 years, but observed closely nothing before.
Used all of the NASA spacecraft Cassini, which was sent to explore Saturn and its moons, and telescopes on the ground floor to the storm over a period of about two months.
The findings are published in the medical sciences, the journal Nature.
Dr Peter Read, University of Oxford, said, "These observations reveal clearly that GWS has a huge complex of thunderstorms convection, upwelling of heat energy and moisture levels deep within the atmosphere of Saturn, accompanied by discharge lightning huge and almost continuous."
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