Big Storm On The Planet Saturn

The Hubble telescope has captured a new image of Saturn and from the photo, scientists have discovered a rare storm that is situated near the equator of the planet. An upward motion of warm air has generated the storm and the diameter of the storm is an unbelievable 7,900 miles. The image shows that the storm’s motion and size have changed little since its discovery back in 1994. This storm comes and goes in cycles. The life cycle is 57 earth years, 2 Saturnian years. The scientists have not come up with an explanation on why these storms occur. The winds inside the storm are clocked at 1,000 miles per hour. The strong winds near the latitude of the storm blow over the northern part of the storm creating a second storm that generates the faint white clouds to the right of the storm center.

Steven Ray
WVUA Weather

7 Responses to “Big Storm On The Planet Saturn”


  1. 1 heather elvis December 1, 2006 at 1:19 am

    i am doing a project that is due monday december 4th and we have to build a modle space station that would be able to have people stay in it. i am having trouble finding information to support what i am doing and i need some facts about stuff like the gravitational pull and if we would need something to hold you down when your sleeping.
    the planet is Saturn
    please reply fast

  2. 2 WVUA December 1, 2006 at 6:54 am

    Hello Heather,

    If you go to NASA’s website they have all kinds of information about space and their vehicles. I believe the website is http://www.nasa.gov

    If that doesn’t work you can go to any popular search engine like yahoo.com and type NASA to get you to their site. Also, try searching for topics in search engines such as “overcoming gravity”, “the laws of gravity” and ” NASA space station.” That sort of header should reveal a topic or webpage with some useful information. Let me know if you still have trouble and I will see what we can come up with…

    Hope this helps!

    Wes

  3. 3 michal May 4, 2007 at 9:08 pm

    i do my project in monday may 7 and i can do about saturn and i can nots find this i can will be find anyone

  4. 4 Jessie June 4, 2007 at 5:20 pm

    My report on saturn is due friday June 6th and I cant find out why the winds are so strong on Saturn. Does anybody know why they ae?

  5. 5 kyla November 5, 2007 at 6:16 pm

    its a really good info but need more about the actuall planet

  6. 6 Anonymous February 4, 2008 at 7:41 am

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  7. 7 letty April 16, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    well this info is usefull but i need more….

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