@2 Not always water, Vince. We got a sweet menthane cycle going on Titan.
And Charles, these storms "seem" to dwarf the ones on Earth because using reliable measuring tools, they factuall DO dwarf the ones on Earth. You could fit several Earths inside the Great Red Spot of Jupiter for fuck's sake. Why the hell say "seem"?
The main storm cell in the image is half the size of our planet, but if you take into account that stream of material spinning out from it, it's five Earths across. An Argentinian astronomer managed to tease out an approximate color image using the same data here...
See the very thin line at the midpoint of the image, above the bands of shadow cast across the planet? The Cassini probe actually snapped the shot from inside Saturn's rings...
What's that? This is a Mudede post? Ok, never mind.
And Charles, these storms "seem" to dwarf the ones on Earth because using reliable measuring tools, they factuall DO dwarf the ones on Earth. You could fit several Earths inside the Great Red Spot of Jupiter for fuck's sake. Why the hell say "seem"?
See the very thin line at the midpoint of the image, above the bands of shadow cast across the planet? The Cassini probe actually snapped the shot from inside Saturn's rings...