Eye of the hurricane on Saturn: a video composed of photographs of Cassini



    The interplanetary space station Cassini back in 2004 took a series of photographs of a hurricane on Saturn. This atmospheric phenomenon has already been described at Geektimes. Note that the velocity of atmospheric mass in this ring is about 150 m / s.

    The hurricane itself is huge: from the center to the first ring of light clouds - about 950 km. The “eye” of a storm is 50 times the size of the average “eye” of an earthly hurricane. The entire hurricane is several times larger than the size of the Earth. A half minute video covers a period of time of approximately 5 hours.



    Saturn itself can be admired here in this video (4K quality). The video is composed of several thousand photographs of Saturn. Note that during its work the interplanetary station "Cassini" sent to the Earth about 30 thousand photographs of Saturn, its rings and satellites. These photos have already been studied by scientists, thanks to which the piggy bank of scientific knowledge has significantly replenished. Since there are a lot of photographs, and they were taken with a very short time interval, an animation sequence can be composed of them.

    What Stephen van Vuuren did, who created the first such video back in 2011. After that, Stephen decided to improve and supplement the video, which was done. According to the author, the video was created exclusively from photos, without using 3D models. The author came in handy with Adobe Photoshop & After Effects.


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