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In fairness, they do say this later: "Past detections of impacts on gas giants have mostly involved Jupiter, where dark impact scars or heat signatures were ea
by kbelder 1y ago
In fairness, they do say this later:
"Past detections of impacts on gas giants have mostly involved Jupiter, where dark impact scars or heat signatures were easier to detect. Until now, Saturn has eluded such direct visual proof."
Although that doesn't make any sense to me.
- notaustinpowers 1y agoSaturn does have a much more uniform cloud layer so impact scars are less prominent as the mixed up gases are similar colors rather than Jupiter’s darker bands.