New research is providing insight into the rather unknown life and death of the massive planet-wide thunder-and-lightning storm

 


Massive Storm On Saturn Imaged Eating Itself By NASA’s Cassini Probe (via Planetsave)

The enormous storm observed on Saturn in 2010/2011 by NASA’s Cassini space mission, is the subject of a new study that has investigated what caused it, and its behavior. The storm was seen stretching across the whole of the planet, before encountering its own tail and mysteriously dissipating. The…