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October 13, 2006
Saturn has a Pearl Necklace
You don't get any more straight forward than that.
Jupiter must have been on a strip club bender again. That always gets him wound up and ready for action.
A bit of meteorological magic has unveiled a string of pearl-like formations in the planet Saturn’s atmosphere.
Seen here dotting the upper portion of Saturn, the pearl-like chain of formations spans some 37,000 miles (60,000 kilometers) as seen from the Cassini spacecraft currently orbiting the ringed planet.
Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer observed Saturn to record its internal glow from thermal heating. The bright “pearls” here are actually clear spots in the planet’s deep atmosphere, with more than two dozen of them dotting the planet at regular intervals across a region found at 40 degrees north latitude
(via ze frank's the show "10-13-2006" and space.com and new scientist)
Posted by Groonk at October 13, 2006 08:39 PM | Ministry of Science
