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	Giant Cyclones on Saturn

LisbethJ

10-13-2008 5:15 PM

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cyclone, saturn

LisbethJ says:

I wouldnt want to live on Saturn!

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10-14-2008 5:37 AM

Rashid Malik

Saturn is so majestic!

10-14-2008 10:30 AM

LisbethJ

Majestic and dangerous

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                                        Giant Cyclones 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/space/20081013/sc_space/giantcyclonesseenonsaturn"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/9F5309F6-799A-4B5E-8E4A-843AA22B88B5" alt="In an image provided by NASA,  the Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's moon Mimas beneath  the rings of the planet.  Mimas is  the innermost of the planet's major moons.  Mimas is 396 kilometers (246 miles) across.  The images were acquired with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on Sept. 4, 2007 at a distance of approximately 2.7 million kilometers (1.7 million miles) from Saturn and 2.8 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Mimas. (AP Photo/NASA/Casini Spcae Craft)" /></div></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/space/20081013/sc_space/giantcyclonesseenonsaturn"><P>
                        Scientists have discovered a giant cyclone swirling on
Saturn's north pole, and observed a similar storm on the planet's south pole in
detail 10 times greater than before, thanks to new images from <SPAN id="lw_1223927283_0" class="yshortcuts">NASA's Cassini
spacecraft</SPAN>.</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/space/20081013/sc_space/giantcyclonesseenonsaturn"><P>The new images, taken in infrared light, reveal for the
first time a massive cyclone churning at the north pole, similar to a gigantic <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/giantcyclonesseenonsaturn/29476812/SIG=121o5gsaj/*http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061109_monster_storm.html"><SPAN id="lw_1223927283_1" class="yshortcuts">storm on
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stronger than the most giant hurricanes on Earth," said Kevin Baines, <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/space/sc_space/storytext/giantcyclonesseenonsaturn/29476812/SIG=10v77pbdt/*http://www.space.com/cassini/"><SPAN id="lw_1223927283_2" class="yshortcuts">Cassini</SPAN></A> scientist on the visual and
<SPAN id="lw_1223927283_3" class="yshortcuts">infrared mapping spectrometer</SPAN> at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
Calif. "Dozens of puffy, convectively formed <SPAN id="lw_1223927283_4" class="yshortcuts">cumulus clouds</SPAN> swirl around
both poles, betraying the presence of giant thunderstorms lurking beneath.
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