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Cassini Gets Close-up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn
Apr. 29, 2013
Cassini has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole.
In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane's eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. Thin, bright clouds at the outer edge of the hurricane are traveling 330 mph (150 meters per second). The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon.
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