D-Bone
Jun 12th '06, 02:20 PM
Residents already on alert for the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season can feel grateful about one thing: They are not living on Jupiter, where the two largest storms in the solar system are about to converge.
The Great Red Spot, a massive storm twice as wide as Earth, and a second storm half as big are racing toward each other under full view of professional and amateur astronomers on Earth.
Both storms have winds estimated at about 350 mph -- more than twice as powerful as Category Five hurricanes on Earth.
"Any one of these at any time would be way worse than Katrina," said Glenn Orton, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Read More: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060612/jupiter_spa.html
The Great Red Spot, a massive storm twice as wide as Earth, and a second storm half as big are racing toward each other under full view of professional and amateur astronomers on Earth.
Both storms have winds estimated at about 350 mph -- more than twice as powerful as Category Five hurricanes on Earth.
"Any one of these at any time would be way worse than Katrina," said Glenn Orton, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Read More: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060612/jupiter_spa.html