A giant hurricane around Saturn’s north pole has been discovered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and researchers hope it will help shape our understanding of similar storms on Earth.
Scientists aren’t sure about the time hurricane formed, but speculate that it could be a permanent weather feature, said fellow Cassini imaging team scientist Andrew Ingersoll at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
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