Anne's Spot

Anne's Spot refers to a reddish-colored anticyclonic oval in Saturn's atmosphere, observed in 1980 and 1981 at 55°S by the Voyager space probes.^[1] It was probably also observed in 2004 at about 53°S by the Cassini orbiter, one-third larger east-west and with faster winds.^[2]^[3]

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Springer Science & Business Media
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doi:10.1029/2005JE002563
. If so, it has moved ~2° north in latitude and increased in velocity by ~25 m s−1, just as predicted by the zonal wind profile (in addition, its east-west diameter has increased from 3200 km to 4500 km).

doi:10.1006/icar.2000.6449
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[Lewis-1] Springer Science & Business Media
. p. 179.

[Vasavada+-2] doi:10.1029/2005JE002563
. If so, it has moved ~2° north in latitude and increased in velocity by ~25 m s−1, just as predicted by the zonal wind profile (in addition, its east-west diameter has increased from 3200 km to 4500 km).

[SR&S-3] :10.1006/icar.2000.6449
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