BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Great White Spot

SATURN · the planet wide outbreak
Great White Spot
AI illustration of the real object
RETURNS roughly every 30 yearsLAST TIME 2010, watched by Cassini

About once per Saturn year, the calm, hazy planet erupts: a brilliant white storm bursts through the cloud deck and stretches until it wraps around the entire globe like a pearl necklace. Cassini had a front row seat for the 2010 outbreak, watching lightning flicker inside it. Saturn saves up its weather for decades, then spends it all at once.

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