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NASA scientists have recorded the sights and sounds storms on the planet Saturn. Extensive storm covers eight times larger than Earth's surface. As quoted by TG Daily, Friday (8/7/2011), the storm was first detected by Cassini at about 35 degrees north latitude in December last year, and it's been raging ever since. Cassini's imaging cameras show the storm wrapped around the planet, an area covering approximately 1.5 billion square miles. It's about 500 times larger than the largest previous storms that had been seen by Cassini since 2009, and the lightning flashes 10 times more frequently than had been seen in other storms. The most intense storm

"Cassini is showing us that Saturn is bipolar. Saturn is not like Earth and Jupiter, where the weather over there quite often happens that a storm came together for years and then explode very loudly. I am glad, that we could see the weather that was so riveting to watch us, "said team member Andrew Ingersoll. Cassini detected lightning storm on Saturn that occurred since the 10 aircraft entered the orbit of the planet and the southern hemisphere has summer, with full sun exposure. "The storm is exciting because it shows how the shift in seasons and solar lighting can dramatically raise the weather on Saturn. We have observed a storm on Saturn for almost seven years, so tracking the storm so different from the others and has put us on the edge of our seats, "says team member Georg Fischer. The storm is the first activity of a new campaign that can be witnessed Saturn's storm, which Cassini monitor the location of the storm, perhaps among the observations that have been scheduled. (tyo)