alpha2cen Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I've heard that the Saturn has a storm. But there is no water to drive storm making. In the Earth, the liquification of the water vapor is a big driving force for a storm creation. How is a storm made in the Saturn? Do you have any clue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 I've heard that the Saturn has a storm. But there is no water to drive storm making. In the Earth, the liquification of the water vapor is a big driving force for a storm creation. How is a storm made in the Saturn? Do you have any clue? Saturn has plenty of water but a storm is not necessarily dependent on water vapor, rising and sinking "air" (in the case of Saturn mostly hydrogen) and coriolis effects cause storms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha2cen Posted January 6, 2011 Author Share Posted January 6, 2011 It's difficult to make storm without latent heat. In order to make storm nature make a big pressure difference. How can nature make the pressure difference without phase change. In the Earth, the volume difference between vapor and liquid is 22.4L : 0.018L (1oC water vapor : liquid water). This difference is a driving force of the storm making. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted January 6, 2011 Share Posted January 6, 2011 It's difficult to make storm without latent heat. In order to make storm nature make a big pressure difference. How can nature make the pressure difference without phase change. In the Earth, the volume difference between vapor and liquid is 22.4L : 0.018L (1oC water vapor : liquid water). This difference is a driving force of the storm making. There are several gasses that condense at different layers, pressures, and temps on Saturn, the deeper you go in Saturn the hotter it gets but there is no surface in the way the Earth has a surface. Internal heat and heat from the sun drives the storms along with Coriolis forces. The weather on Saturn is not driven the same way as the Earth's weather but similar forces create similar effects like wind and lightning. Internal heat on Saturn is created by helium rain deep within the metallic liquid hydrogen oceans of both Jupiter and Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are quite different internally (they are basically balls of high pressure high temperature ice) Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants and made up mostly of hydrogen in it's gaseous, liquid, and metallic states but the effects still create storm patterns similar to Earth and other planets with deep atmospheres. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha2cen Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 I've heard Saturn's atmosphere movement is not different than Earth's one. The Earth's atmosphere movement is local i.c. Northern hemisphere atmosphere movement is only rely on Northern hemisphere atmosphere. But Saturn's atmosphere is consisted of big block with South hemisphere atmosphere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainPanic Posted January 7, 2011 Share Posted January 7, 2011 If I may... I believe that the answer is given on the Wikipedia website about Saturn... and specifically in the paragraph that deals with the atmosphere of Saturn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha2cen Posted January 7, 2011 Author Share Posted January 7, 2011 (edited) look this site. http://en.wikipedia....here_of_Jupiter Have a look Deep models. Quite recently I've known about it. Edited January 7, 2011 by alpha2cen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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