Storm's giant eye on Saturn

[kracken]

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered a new wonder on Saturn--a huge vortex at the ringed planet's south pole. Images released Thursday show the first storm of its kind seen on another planet. Winds are swirling around an eye, just like a hurricane on Earth, except the winds on Saturn are blowing at about 350 miles per hour. A Category 5 hurricane on Earth contains winds of more than 156 miles per hour. Clouds casting a shadow in the center of the vortex extend from 20 to 45 miles above the surface. This storm has a diameter of about 5,000 miles.


Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute

[baronvon]

nice pic

THE BARON

[Epiphany]

I seriously can't comprehend how big that storm is.

Eery stuff!

[Speshal]

Bloody cool, however I'm 99% certain that it's not a storm at all but in fact the planet is being devoured by black monoliths. Seriously I could be right >_>

[Gavin M]

hope the folks on saturn have insurance, guna do some damage that

[ElWappo]

Sweet pic. Saturn Floats too. K+

[grint]

Great post. 5000 f@@king miles??

[cronus71]

Scary pic