Scientists to throw light on Saturn's storm
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15/02/2006
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Pioneer (New Delhi)
Researchers are tracking a gigantic storm on Saturn that is unleashing lightning bolts more than 1,000 times stronger than those found on Earth. Using instruments aboard the international Cassini spacecraft, scientists from the University of Iowa first spotted the storm on January 23. But since the spacecraft was not in the right position to photograph the storm, scientists enlisted the help of amateur astronomers who confirmed a storm was raging in the ringed planet's southern hemisphere.