Colossal hurricane-like storm seen on Saturn


	Colossal hurricane-like storm seen on Saturn

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11-11-2006 10:46 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c527f8b2-a33f-4476-9fe8-a8ba848379f2/63D03ECC-3A4D-47C8-A848-C48B5C99FA87/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1"><H1>
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Colossal hurricane-like storm seen on Saturn 
</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/87432DC4-CFB4-46C2-9090-1EA675F151D0" alt="This undated photograph, released by NASA November 9, 2006, shows a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole. The colossal storm, with a well-developed eye, marks the first time a truly hurricane-like storm has been detected on a planet other than Earth, the images showed on Thursday. EDITORIAL USE ONLY (NASA/Handout/Reuters)" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1&printer=1" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1&printer=1" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1&printer=1"><P>A colossal, swirling storm with a
well-developed eye is churning at Saturn's south pole, the
first time a truly hurricane-like storm has been detected on a
planet other than Earth, NASA images showed on Thursday.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1&printer=1"><P>The storm on the giant, ringed planet is about 5,000 miles</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1&printer=1"><P>wide, measuring roughly two thirds the diameter of Earth,
with winds howling clockwise at 350 mph (550 kph).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1&printer=1"><P>Jupiter's Great Red Spot, which swirls counterclockwise, is
far bigger, but is less like a hurricane because it lacks the
typical eye and eye wall.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1&printer=1"><P>Michael Flasar, an astrophysicist involved in the mission
at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,
said the storm looks just like water swirling down the drain in
a bath tub, only on a gigantic scale.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061109/sc_nm/space_saturn_dc_1&printer=1"><P>"We've never seen anything like this before," Flasar said
in an interview. "It's a spectacular-looking storm."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/63D03ECC-3A4D-47C8-A848-C48B5C99FA87/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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