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Amateurs Track Storm on Saturn

By Keith Cowing
April 8, 2013
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Cassini and Amateurs Chase Storm on Saturn

“With the help of amateur astronomers, the composite infrared spectrometer instrument aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has taken its first look at a massive blizzard in Saturn’s atmosphere. The instrument collected the most detailed data to date of temperatures and gas distribution in that planet’s storms.”

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