Hurricane On Saturn

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken remarkable images of a huge hurricane at Saturn's north pole.  The eye of the storm is 20 times larger than the eyes of large hurricanes on Earth, and the strongest winds are roaring at 330 miles an hour.

Cassini first spotted the monster in 2004, but that was during winter in Saturn's northern hemisphere, so the polar region was relatively dark.  With Saturn slipping into northern spring, and with Cassini in a more polar orbit, scientists are beginning to see the storm in its full glory.  The hurricane also sits wthin a mysterious hexagonal structure in the atmosphere, a structure with seemingly straight sides and sharp corners-- one of the oddest things yet found in the Solar System.