The Storms of Saturn

The spacecraft Cassini captures turbulent weather on the surface of the ringed planet.
NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute

Turbulent
Data from Cassini's instruments show that the storm's lightning flash rate is as much as 10 times more frequent than during other storms monitored since Cassini's arrival on Saturn in 2004.

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