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Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn

 
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Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn
[link to www.newscientistspace.com]
15 February 2006

The most powerful lightning storm ever detected on Saturn has been captured by the Cassini spacecraft – but scientists are still not sure what is causing it.

Cassini's Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument captured the first radio noise from the storm on 23 January 2006. But the storm continued to rage and scientists have recorded at least 25 strong episodes of lightning activity since.

"It is clear that this is the strongest lightning activity that we've seen with Cassini since it arrived at Saturn," says Donald Gurnett at the University of Iowa, US, and RPWS principal investigator. "In fact, the flash rate even exceeds the rate observed by Voyager 1 back in 1980 and the intensities are at least as large, if not larger."

The lightning bolts are more than 1000 times stronger than those on Earth – listen to them here. The storm covers an area larger than the continental US, at a southern latitude around 36°. This region is known as "Storm Alley" because Cassini has observed so many storms there since it reached Saturn in July 2004.


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Re: Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn
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Re: Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn
EPM storm? War of the Worlds style
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Re: Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn
the cosmos are dancing on fire....
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Re: Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn
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Forget Earth Changes, how about Solar System Changes. What effects the other planets effects us as well.
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Re: Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn
Saturn means Satan.

Jesus said in Luke 10:18 KJV, He saw Satan fall like lightning....

So makes sense to me.

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Re: Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn
Another example of the new "charge" that we have apparently entered?
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Re: Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn
Please remember the instruments measuring the lightning have not been there very long. Cassini has been at Sautrn less than two years, and the two Voyagers didn't get to spend much tome at Saturn either. This kind of storm may not be that unusual.
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We need weather satellites in orbit "geo-sync" around every know planet in the system, including Sedna and Zena.. after about twenty years of them we might actually really begin the second day of space kindergarten.
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Re: Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn
Leviticus 7, verse 7,, And the Christians of the latterdays will be likened unto a horse's ass. (Saturn means Satan.. damned)
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I wonder if they will pinpoint the area the lightning is at? Or what if it is all over the planet? They can hear it is one thing... thats for sure...

Well see...


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Re: Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn
Also...

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Saturn's inner moons – more rubble than ice
13:58 14 February 2006
Saturn's small, inner moons may not be huge chunks of ice as once thought, but rather "rubble piles" of material built up around small central cores, a team of Cassini scientists suggests.

Before the Cassini mission to Saturn’s moons, scientists knew small moons such as Pan, Atlas, Janus and Epimetheus orbited the ringed planet. "But we didn't have good pictures of them. We didn't have measurements of their shape," says Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Science Team leader from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, US. "It could have been that they were collisional shards, monolithic pieces of ice."

But now that Cassini has relayed images of those satellites back to Earth and scientists have examined the moons' shapes, estimated their masses and calculated their densities, Porco says that does not look to be the case.

Instead, she says, the "rounded football" shape of Calypso, Telesto (pictured), Epimetheus, Janus, Pandora, Prometheus, Atlas and Pan is characteristic of accreted bodies – where material has built up around a core.

The moons are "almost undoubtedly rubble piles" formed through accretion, Porco told New Scientist.

Scientists still do not have reliable masses for two of the so-called Trojan moons of Saturn – Telesto and Calypso – but the team includes them as satellites likely to have been accreted based on their shape in Cassini's recent pictures. The very low densities – between about 0.4 and 0.6 grams per cubic centimetre – calculated for the moons with known masses further support the "rubble pile" theory.

The team is scheduled to present its results at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas, US, in March 2006.

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Re: Strongest lightning storm on record strikes Saturn
Saturn = Satan

[link to www.myastrologybook.com]

I very well may be a horse's ass...

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