NASA: Rare, enormous gas storm detected on Saturn

CNN - Todd Sperry, 10/25/12

• The storm, first detected in 2010, let out something of a cosmic burp
• If on Earth, it would cover North America top to bottom and wrap the globe many times
• The storm also led to a drastic change in the ringed planet

These red, orange and green clouds on Saturn represent the tail end of a 2010/11 massive storm

(CNN) -- NASA says the Cassini spacecraft recorded the aftermath of a massive storm on Saturn that let out an "unprecedented belch of energy."

Not only was the size of the storm unusual, but what the storm was made of left scientists puzzled.

The source of the cosmic burp, which rapidly changed the atmosphere's temperature, was ethylene gas, an odorless, colorless gas that has rarely been observed on Saturn, NASA said.

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