However, scientists were not just given this knowledge about Saturn, nor did they predict that polar cyclones could be a possibility, that was until they tested these conditions to give us this information. Once after the test was completed, scientist Morgan O’Neil, found that beta drifting, helps the thunderstorms to create a cyclone (Chu 2016). Beta-drifting is when the storm is spinning one way on bottom and the opposite way up towards the atmosphere. Now since Saturn is moving on it’s axis with its own velocity, it then drags with it the storm’s spinning at their own speed as well; which would bring the storms straight to the poles (Kluger 2016). O 'Neil even quoted saying, “ The whole atmosphere is being dragged by its planet as it rotates… so all that air has some ambient angular momentum.” (Chu 2016). Over a great amount of time if these storms continue to gain angular momentum, or Saturn wobbles a bit more on it’s axis, a more permanent-long lasting cyclone can appear at the
However, scientists were not just given this knowledge about Saturn, nor did they predict that polar cyclones could be a possibility, that was until they tested these conditions to give us this information. Once after the test was completed, scientist Morgan O’Neil, found that beta drifting, helps the thunderstorms to create a cyclone (Chu 2016). Beta-drifting is when the storm is spinning one way on bottom and the opposite way up towards the atmosphere. Now since Saturn is moving on it’s axis with its own velocity, it then drags with it the storm’s spinning at their own speed as well; which would bring the storms straight to the poles (Kluger 2016). O 'Neil even quoted saying, “ The whole atmosphere is being dragged by its planet as it rotates… so all that air has some ambient angular momentum.” (Chu 2016). Over a great amount of time if these storms continue to gain angular momentum, or Saturn wobbles a bit more on it’s axis, a more permanent-long lasting cyclone can appear at the