Saturn's Superstorm

  • Released Thursday, November 15, 2012
  • Updated Thursday, December 3, 2015 at 12:35PM
  • ID: 11127

Three weeks after the storm erupted, it stretched 6,000 miles north to south and 11,000 miles east to west.

Three weeks after the storm erupted, it stretched 6,000 miles north to south and 11,000 miles east to west.

Crisscrossing winds sheared the storm clouds, and twelve weeks after the storm began, the clouds had wrapped around the entire planet.

Crisscrossing winds sheared the storm clouds, and twelve weeks after the storm began, the clouds had wrapped around the entire planet.

If an equivalent storm took place on Earth, it would blanket most of North America top to bottom and circle the globe.

If an equivalent storm took place on Earth, it would blanket most of North America top to bottom and circle the globe.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Video courtesy of NASA/GSFC/JPL-Caltech
Animation courtesy of ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC/SSI/ESO/IRTF/C. Carreau
Images courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute



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