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8000km Hurricane

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  • 10-11-2006 1:32pm
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    The Hill Billy
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    This may be more suited to the Space forum (mods - feel free to move), however I thought that you Weather guys may be interested in this article about an 8,000km diameter hurricane seen on Saturn.


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    Snowbie
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    It be relevant in both fora Hill Billy.Its weather on this planet or space.NP here.

    Thats one massive storm alright.I wonder how old that storm is and how long its there?
    Jupiter great red spot is a storm for millions of years.


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    The Hill Billy
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    It looks like it has been going for some time...
    APOD wrote:
    ...scientists sent the robot Cassini probe now orbiting Saturn directly over the lower spin axis of the ringed giant. Cassini found there a spectacular massive swirling storm system with a well developed eye-wall, similar to a hurricane here on Earth...
    ...The storm is slightly larger than the entire Earth and carries winds that reach 550 kilometers per hour, twice the velocity of a Category 5 hurricane. This pole vortex on Saturn might have been raging for billions of years and is not expected to drift off the pole.


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