Extreme picture of super typhoon on Saturn

The super typhoon the American spacecraft saw on Saturn was about 20 times larger than the average storm on the planet.

Cassini, the US spacecraft flying around Saturn, has captured the planet's super-stormy super-spectacle. The storm center has a width of up to 2,000km, and the wind speed reaches 530km / h, Space reported.

Super typhoon on Saturn has a hexagonal swirl and is larger
20 times the typical storms on earth. (Photo: Space)

Scientists from the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) confirm data from Cassini are the clearest images of the Saturn storms they have ever seen.

"We have to watch the storm twice because it is like a storm on the globe. But the storm happened on Saturn much larger , " said Andrew Ingersoll, a member of the data analysis team. from Cassini, said.

Saturn super typhoon has a hexagon-shaped vortex shape. Earth storms often move north, while Saturn storms "stand" in the north pole for a period of time.

"Extreme storms cannot move to other places. Perhaps that is why it stuck in the far north," said Kunio Sayanagi, a team member who analyzed images from Cassini.

Although Saturn's super typhoon is much larger and more powerful than Earth's storm, they still have some things in common. For example, storm eyes on both planets contain very low clouds or even clouds, and high clouds form the walls of the eye. When reaching the northern hemisphere, storms on Earth and Saturn rotate counterclockwise.