Titanic lightning storm on Saturn

Wednesday, February 15, 2006; Posted: 5:44 p.m. EST (22:44 GMT)
 
 
PASADENA, California (AP) -- Researchers are tracking a gigantic storm on Saturn that is unleashing lightning bolts more than 1,000 times stronger than those found on Earth.

Using instruments aboard the international Cassini spacecraft, scientists from the University of Iowa first spotted the storm on January 23.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/02/15/saturn.storm.ap/index.html

 

 

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