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Saturn's jet streams powered by storms

08/05/2007 1039 views 1 likes

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New Cassini research suggests that eddies, or giant rotating storms, are the 'engine' powering Saturn's jet stream winds.

This new information about how Saturn's jet streams are powered is contrary to what scientists believed prior to Cassini. The new results are published in the journal Icarus.

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