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Turbulence in Saturn's Atmosphere

Posted by michael on Thursday October 21, 2004 @05:27AM from the nice-whorls dept.

neutron_p writes "Today an image of turbulence in the atmosphere of Saturn has been unveiled. This image was taken with the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens spacecraft camera. This pattern is an example of a 'Kelvin-Helmholtz instability', which occurs when two fluids of different density flow past each other at different speeds. This phenomenon should be common on the gas-giant planets."

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Re:Ummm .... by dtolman · 2004-10-21 05:58 · Score: 2, Insightful

What do you expect, baseball highlights?
Well... some context would be nice. Is this a first? Does this confirm some long unfulfilled prediction? They post new pictures from the Cassini probe all the time - why is this one chosen for a slashdot story out of all the newly posted pictures from the past week, many of which were also discoveries?