Saturn storm’s aftermath
Planetary scientists have for the first time documented in detail the effects of a Saturnian storm on the planet’s atmosphere. Combining data from satellites and ground-based telescopes, an international team of researchers found that within a month of the onset of a storm last December, the disturbance had penetrated hundreds of kilometers into Saturn’s stratosphere, altering temperature, winds and composition over an entire hemisphere.
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