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Analysis of a long-lived, two-cell lightning storm on Saturn

Gurnett, D. A.; Kurth, W. S.; Delcroix, M. +4 more

Lightning storms in Saturn's atmosphere can last for a few days up to several months. In this paper we analyze a lightning storm that raged for seven and a half months at a planetocentric latitude of 35° south from the end of November 2007 until mid-July 2008. Thunderstorms observed by the Cassini spacecraft before this time were characterized by …