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Saturn’s giant ’cane

  • Last Updated: 5:33 AM, April 30, 2013
  • Posted: 12:44 AM, April 30, 2013

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A false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission shows the spinning vortex of Saturn's north polar storm.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured stunning views of a monster hurricane at Saturn’s North Pole.

The eye of the cyclone is an enormous 1,250 miles across — 20 times larger than the typical eye of a terrestrial storm. And at the outer edge, its clouds are whipping around at 330 mph.

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This is what the storm looks like in natural light.

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