Storm On Saturn Is Bigger than You Can Imagine

                                    The Storm (via NASA)

                                The Storm Moves  (via NASA)

                                 False color images showing intensity (via NASA)

 

According to NASA , it's actually eight times the surface area of Earth . It is the biggest storm ever observed on the planet , and is at least 500 times bigger than any other storm observed  by the Cassini spacecraft  that orbits the ringed planet.

 

It seems the beast of a storm is as destructive as it is large.

 

From NASA :

The storm is about 500 times larger than the biggest storm previously seen  by Cassini during several months from 2009 to 2010 . Scientists studied the sounds of the new storms lightning strikes and analzed images taken between December 2010 and February 2011 . Data from Cassini's radio and plasma waves science instrument showed the lightning flash rate as much as 10 times more frequent than during other storms . Monitored since Cassini's arrival to Saturn in 2004 .

The data appears in a paper published this week in the  'Journal Nature.'

 

Scientists are excited by the storm because it provides further insight  into the weather patterns of the planet  . Apparently this occurrence shows just how much the change of seasons can effect the planets major weather  patterns.

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