Three large and impressive eddies, two of which appear to be related to each other, have been imaged by Cassini as they swirl around the active region at Saturn's dormish latitudes
24.5.2006
By: Avi Blizovsky
Three large and impressive eddies, two of which appear to be related to each other, have been imaged by Cassini as they swirl around the active region at Saturn's dormish latitudes.
In the picture you can see storms also in northern latitudes slightly more than those that are known for their storms.
The image was taken by Cassini's narrow-angle camera, using a filter sensitive to infrared light. The photo was taken on April 15, 2006 from a distance of about 3.9 million km from Saturn.
The scale in the picture is 23 kilometers per pixel.
Hurricanes merge in Saturn
22.1.2006
By: Avi Blizovsky
Two storms raging in the area known as Storm Alley are on the verge of merging. Photo: NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
Two storms on Saturn that are swirling around them in what is informally known as the "cough of the storms". These mid-latitude regions have been active since the Cassini crew began observing Saturn in early 2004.
The large storm towards the left side of the image was 2,500 kilometers in diameter from north to south. This storm is larger than typical storms in this area, which are roughly the size of a large terrestrial hurricane - about a thousand km. Even further to the left of it, a small storm with a diameter of 700 km. These two storms communicate with each other. Their thin arms are starting to blend in and they must have fused a few days after this photo was taken.
The image was taken by Cassini's narrow-angle camera on December 9, 2005, from a distance of about 3.2 million km from Saturn. The image passed through a filter sensitive to the wavelengths of infrared light around 727 nm. The scale of the image is 38 km per pixel.
A short video describing the storms in the area as captured by Cassini
