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Saturn’s Powerful Winds Explain Changes in the Length of Its Day

by Katherine Kornei 17 March 202221 March 2022

Atmospheric winds moving at more than 7,000 kilometers per hour distort Saturn’s magnetic field, revealing why spacecraft have measured changes in the length of a day on the ringed world.

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