Longest Lightning Storm On Saturn Breaks Solar System Record
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 23:28
in Astronomy & Space
A powerful lightning storm in Saturn’s atmosphere that began in mid-January 2009 has become the Solar System’s longest continuously observed thunderstorm. It broke the record duration of 7.5 months set by another thunderstorm observed on Saturn by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft between November 2007 and July 2008.