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MrScorpio

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Thu May 2, 2013, 11:33 PM May 2013

Saturn hurricane has 1,250 mile-wide eye




Posted by Jason Samenow on April 29, 2013 at 3:56 pm
NASA has obtained first of its kind imagery of a truly gargantuan storm on Saturn with an eye that spans the equivalent distance of about Washington, D.C. to Dallas.

Like hurricanes on Earth, NASA says, the eye is mostly cloud-free.
“Other similar features include high clouds forming an eye wall, other high clouds spiraling around the eye, and a counter-clockwise spin in the northern hemisphere,” NASA writes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/04/29/saturn-hurricane-has-1250-mile-wide-eye/
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Saturn hurricane has 1,250 mile-wide eye (Original Post) MrScorpio May 2013 OP
Kick for great pics burnodo May 2013 #1
kicky burnodo May 2013 #3
Wow!!!! nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #2
I saw that and it nearly blew my brain malaise May 2013 #4
Wow. Warren DeMontague May 2013 #5
Damn!! That is one scary looking storm! Initech May 2013 #6
Crazy....it's like from another world Cali_Democrat May 2013 #7
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