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News & ArtsTuesday, November 22, 2011
Science The Storm That Lasted for 200 Days
Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:07 AM
It happened on Saturn.
- NASA
It's longest recorded storm on that planet since the one observed in 1903—it lasted 150 days.
On the same day that Cassini's high-resolution cameras captured the first images of the storm, Cassini's radio and plasma wave instrument detected the storm's electrical activity, revealing it to be a convective thunderstorm. The storm's active convecting phase ended in late June, but the turbulent clouds it created linger in the atmosphere today.A storm on Saturn is more like a volcano eruption on our planet.
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That's only, like, 83 earth days... no biggie.
Or is it 480 Saturn days? Even then, it's only a small fraction of a year on Saturn. It works out to be less than 2% of a year. Our equivalent would be a seven-day storm. That happens quite often on this planet. No biggie….
Or is it 480 Saturn days? Even then, it's only a small fraction of a year on Saturn. It works out to be less than 2% of a year. Our equivalent would be a seven-day storm. That happens quite often on this planet. No biggie….
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im tellin you, light one up and watch The Planets doc (BBC). its extremely well written and puts the amazing high res images we have today in historical context
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@6: If and only if a seven-day storm is an event that happens once in a hundred years on earth, is this equivalent.
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@12 My kid LOVES the Great Red Spot.
@11 Not really, but I was really just playing with numbers that have no correlation. 200 earth days or 480 saturn days, or 2% of a Saturn year... yes, it's a lot of storm there. Especially if you compare the size of the storm to the size of earth.
@11 Not really, but I was really just playing with numbers that have no correlation. 200 earth days or 480 saturn days, or 2% of a Saturn year... yes, it's a lot of storm there. Especially if you compare the size of the storm to the size of earth.
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