Comments on: Saturn broods while a storm dissipates http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/04/30/saturn-broods-while-a-storm-dissipates/ Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:12:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: The double-headed eagle cults « power of language blog: partnering with reality by JR Fibonacci http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/04/30/saturn-broods-while-a-storm-dissipates/#comment-330042 The double-headed eagle cults « power of language blog: partnering with reality by JR Fibonacci Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:23:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=48182#comment-330042 [...] Saturn broods while a storm dissipates (blogs.discovermagazine.com) [...] [...] Saturn broods while a storm dissipates (blogs.discovermagazine.com) [...]

]]> By: Spot the specks of Saturn’s moons http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/04/30/saturn-broods-while-a-storm-dissipates/#comment-330041 Spot the specks of Saturn’s moons Wed, 02 May 2012 12:59:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=48182#comment-330041 [...] in this picture they’re casting wide, curved shadows on Saturn’s southern hemisphere. Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait says he can’t help noticing the thin white ribbon of clouds stretching across the [...] [...] in this picture they’re casting wide, curved shadows on Saturn’s southern hemisphere. Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait says he can’t help noticing the thin white ribbon of clouds stretching across the [...]

]]> By: Messier Tidy Upper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/04/30/saturn-broods-while-a-storm-dissipates/#comment-330040 Messier Tidy Upper Tue, 01 May 2012 03:35:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=48182#comment-330040 Hope its okay with you BA and netiquette~wise if I link this great item here : http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2012/02/saturns_super_storm_staggers_s.php On the same Saturnean storm via Ethan Siegel's <i>'Starts with a Bang'</i> blog? Apologies and please let me know if not. Great map and more info there which I hope y'all enjoy. :-) Hope its okay with you BA and netiquette~wise if I link this great item here :

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2012/02/saturns_super_storm_staggers_s.php

On the same Saturnean storm via Ethan Siegel’s ‘Starts with a Bang’ blog? Apologies and please let me know if not.

Great map and more info there which I hope y’all enjoy. :-)

]]> By: Messier Tidy Upper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/04/30/saturn-broods-while-a-storm-dissipates/#comment-330039 Messier Tidy Upper Tue, 01 May 2012 03:35:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=48182#comment-330039 <blockquote><i>so let me just leave this here: a lovely image of Saturn and its moon Tethys and Enceladus, courtesy of Cassini .. </i></blockquote> BA, I wouldn't stop you leaving that even if I could which I can't! ;-) Seriously, these <i>Cassini</i> images are always good and welcomed by me. :-) On reflection, I wonder if this Saturnean storm sank for a while and rose to the surface recently - like the Great Red Spot has been known to do? <blockquote><i> It’s approaching northern hemisphere summer for Saturn, though .. </i></blockquote> _____...For Saturn's southern hemisphere, the autumnal leaves are changing colour and falling from their branches, wafting through the gentle hydrogen breezes of hundreds of kilometers windspeed and piling up in great bright deciduous drifts amid the driving helium rain .. Oh wait! ;-) Ah Saturnean spring, season of mists and un-mellow storminess! <i> (With apologies to Yeats or was it Keats, one famous English or Irish poet anyhow.)</i> Seriously, I also wonder how Saturn's seasons affect any possible Enceladese or Titanian or other Saturnean life forms that may exist - how much difference in temperature and consitions would there be here?

so let me just leave this here: a lovely image of Saturn and its moon Tethys and Enceladus, courtesy of Cassini ..

BA, I wouldn’t stop you leaving that even if I could which I can’t! ;-)

Seriously, these Cassini images are always good and welcomed by me. :-)

On reflection, I wonder if this Saturnean storm sank for a while and rose to the surface recently – like the Great Red Spot has been known to do?

It’s approaching northern hemisphere summer for Saturn, though ..

_____…For Saturn’s southern hemisphere, the autumnal leaves are changing colour and falling from their branches, wafting through the gentle hydrogen breezes of hundreds of kilometers windspeed and piling up in great bright deciduous drifts amid the driving helium rain .. Oh wait! ;-)

Ah Saturnean spring, season of mists and un-mellow storminess! (With apologies to Yeats or was it Keats, one famous English or Irish poet anyhow.)

Seriously, I also wonder how Saturn’s seasons affect any possible Enceladese or Titanian or other Saturnean life forms that may exist – how much difference in temperature and consitions would there be here?

]]> By: Messier Tidy Upper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/04/30/saturn-broods-while-a-storm-dissipates/#comment-330038 Messier Tidy Upper Tue, 01 May 2012 00:35:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/?p=48182#comment-330038 By <strike>Jove</strike> Saturn that's a great picture! ;-) Thanks <i>Cassini</i> & BA. Wonder how deep that storm extends into Saturn's bottomless atmosphere which slowly turns to supercritical fluid? Wonder if it stirs up currents there? Saturn's seasons are long too - 30 earth years to a Saturnean one works out to a long but hardly hot summer and other seasons too. By Jove Saturn that’s a great picture! ;-)

Thanks Cassini & BA.

Wonder how deep that storm extends into Saturn’s bottomless atmosphere which slowly turns to supercritical fluid? Wonder if it stirs up currents there?

Saturn’s seasons are long too – 30 earth years to a Saturnean one works out to a long but hardly hot summer and other seasons too.

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