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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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 Posted - 11/10/2006 : 08:36:22
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Movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB2CB6EhIwI
Info from the evil hoax producin' NASA people
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet -- a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.
This 14-frame movie shows a swirling cloud mass centered on the south pole, around which winds blow at 550 kilometers (350 miles) per hour.
The "hurricane" spans a dark area inside a thick, brighter ring of clouds. It is approximately 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) across, or two thirds the diameter of Earth.
"It looks like a hurricane, but it doesn't behave like a hurricane," said Dr. Andrew Ingersoll, a member of Cassini's imaging team at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. "Whatever it is, we're going to focus on the eye of this storm and find out why it's there."
Edit to fix 2nd link
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by Filthy
The neo-con methane machine will soon be running at full fart. |
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Edited by - pleco on 11/10/2006 14:36:03
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 11/10/2006 : 10:58:00 [Permalink]
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Katrina writ huge....! 
It will be interesting to see the followups -- where is Bigbrain when you need him. He would love this one. 
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 11/10/2006 : 14:18:36 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by pleco
Movie clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB2CB6EhIwI
Info from the evil hoax producin' NASA people
quote:
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet -- a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.
This 14-frame movie shows a swirling cloud mass centered on the south pole, around which winds blow at 550 kilometers (350 miles) per hour.
The "hurricane" spans a dark area inside a thick, brighter ring of clouds. It is approximately 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) across, or two thirds the diameter of Earth.
"It looks like a hurricane, but it doesn't behave like a hurricane," said Dr. Andrew Ingersoll, a member of Cassini's imaging team at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. "Whatever it is, we're going to focus on the eye of this storm and find out why it's there."
The vid's fantastic! Hard to believe we can sit here and see such detail on Saturn. But the second link doesn't work for me.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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