| During this effort, Cassini looks at likely storm locations on Saturn in between its scheduled observations | On the same day that the radio and plasma wave instrument detected the first lightning, Cassini's cameras happened to be pointed at the right location as part of the campaign and captured an image of a small, bright cloud |
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| " At its most intense, the storm generated more than 10 lightning flashes per second | Weather on Saturn appears to hum along placidly for years and then erupt violently |
"We have been observing storms on Saturn for almost seven years, so tracking a storm so different from the others has put us at the edge of our seats.
17| "Cassini shows us that Saturn is bipolar," said Andrew Ingersoll, an author of the study and a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured images in 1990 of an equally large storm |
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| Scientists created a sound file from data obtained on March 15 at a slightly lower intensity period |