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Turbulence in Saturn's Atmosphere

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Ummm .... by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Interesting
    This is a cool picture - but how exactly is this news, and why should we be excited?


    Because it's posted in the science section of Slashdot and a tremendous amount of us geeks keep an eye on all things space and science related?

    The fact that we're in the middle of learning/confirming/discovering stuff about our own solar system is both News For Nerds and Stuff That Matters.

    What do you expect, baseball highlights?

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