[Baps] Andy Ingersol @ MIT Wednesday, Oct 2nd

[Jason Soderblom]

> Andy Ingersoll, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences
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> The Thirty-Year Storms of Saturn
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> 4pm Wednesday
> October 2nd
> Room 54-915
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> Pre-lecture Reception at 3:45pm
> All are welcome to attend.
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> ABSTRACT
> On December 5, 2010, Cassini's camera saw a new spot in Saturn's atmosphere and Cassini's radio receiver started picking up lightning emissions. The storm grew to a 10,000 km-diameter monster with a tail that wrapped around the planet until it faded in mid-summer of 2011. These giant storms are rare. The last one was in 1990, and there have only been six of them, including this one, since 1876. I will discuss the properties and behavior of these storms, and I will present a theory for why Saturn is able to store convective potential energy for 30 years while Earth and Jupiter seem to release it every few hours or every day.
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> BIO
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> Professor Ingersoll is the Earle C. Anthony Professor of Planetary Science at the California Institute of Technology, is an expert on the weather and climate of Earth and the other planets. He has been a science team member and/or interdisciplinary scientist for deep space missions including Pioneer Jupiter/Saturn, Pioneer Venus, Voyager, VEGA Venus Balloons, Mars Global Surveyor, Galileo, Cassini, and Juno. Dr. Ingersoll is currently the atmospheric sciences editor of Icarus, the International Journal of Solar System Studies. Dr. Ingersoll received his Ph.D. in atmospheric physics from Harvard University in 1966. He has published one book, Planetary Climates, which was released by Princeton University Press in August 2013.
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> http://www.gps.caltech.edu/people/api/profile
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