BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 28 (UPI) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around Saturn has captured an image of a huge storm previously reported by amateur astronomers, the space agency said.
The storm, in the southern hemisphere of the ringed planet, was photographed by Cassini last week and the image was released Monday, SPACE.com reported.
"This storm had been sighted by the amateurs in recent weeks, but Cassini was finally in a position to take a splendid series of pictures of it," Cassini imaging team leader Carolyn Porco said from the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. "And what a storm it is!"
Storms are common on the gas giant planet, researchers say.
Cassini, launched in 1997, has been imaging Saturn ever since its arrival at the planet in 2004.
