The east coast of the United States could shake during a hurricane called Sandy, but this hurricane is nothing compared to the super typhoon discovered by NASA in Saturn.
A hurricane that raged through Saturn in early 2011 and lasted six months created the largest and hottest vortices in the solar system, and a mysterious explosion created clusters of ethylene.
According to the NASA discovery, there was an “incredible” temperature jump at Saturn, reaching 84 degrees Celsius – the largest increase ever recorded in the solar system. To simplify the imagination, one could say that rising temperatures could instantly turn Alaska’s winter into a summer wilderness.
“We were completely shocked by this temperature change. No similar event has been observed before,” said University of Maryland scientist Brigette Hesman. At the time of its greatest activity, the storm created clouds 14,500 km wide. Thunder and lightning, and cloud formation of ethylene (a byproduct of methane) in Saturn’s atmosphere are accompanied by significant temperature changes.
“We know this is caused by a big storm forming in the lower atmosphere,” where the temperature is warm enough to allow the water to evaporate and form clouds, Hesman said. But how did the storm create so many strange things? Researchers have been trying for years to find the right answer.
Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system. It is a gas giant – a planet made up of liquid gases and therefore has neither earth nor rocks like Earth. The unmanned expedition ship Cassini, sponsored by NASA and space agencies in Europe and Italy, was launched in 1997 with a mission to collect information about Saturn, helping scientists study the process. the training and development of this chimpanzee. The information above is the greatest discovery ever made by Cassini. The results will be published in the Astrophysical Journal on November 20.
