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February 10, 2005
Polar Vortex
The Flea's base on Saturn is revealed. You did not imagine it was an accident I should live under the Earth's Arctic Polar Vortex?
Astronomers using a giant telescope atop a volcano have discovered a hot spot at the tip of Saturn's south pole.
The infrared images captured by the Keck I telescope at the W.M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island suggest a warm polar vortex _ a large-scale weather pattern likened to a jet stream on Earth that occurs in the upper atmosphere. It's the first such hot vortex ever discovered in the solar system.
The infrared images captured by the Keck I telescope at the W.M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big Island suggest a warm polar vortex _ a large-scale weather pattern likened to a jet stream on Earth that occurs in the upper atmosphere. It's the first such hot vortex ever discovered in the solar system.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at February 10, 2005 05:35 AM
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