Saturn’s massive hexagonal storm at its north pole has baffled scientists for decades. But what’s even more surprising? Earth has storm patterns that resemble this extraterrestrial weather phenomenon!
"To generate a field, you need to keep the currents in the metallic hydrogen layer inside Saturn flowing, and without the offset the thinking is that the field would simply go away. "What's going on?
A huge storm dominates the rather featureless surface of Saturn in an image taken by the Cassini spacecraft on Feb. 25, 2011, about 12 weeks after the powerful storm was first detected in the ...
Deep inside Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn some 890 million miles from Earth, one of our best chances of discovering alien life is heating up. Enceladus is less than 1% the size of our moon yet ...
At its poles, a terrible storm rages ... named—and thousands of moonlets are hiding inside its rings. Four of our planets have rings, but Saturn's are enormous and complex, in a class of ...
Diamonds seem especially likely to form in huge, storm-ravaged regions of Saturn, and in enormous quantities ... Eventually the gems sink toward the interior of the planet (a depth of 18,600 ...