Dec 5th 2013, 15:46, by Kwame Opam
NASA announced this week that its Cassini spacecraft has managed to capture a first-of-its-kind film of the monstrous jet stream roiling at Saturn's north pole. The short GIF, using color filters, shows currents of air moving at 200 miles-per-hour in what's known as "the hexagon," a system unique to Saturn measuring about 20,000 miles across the planet's surface. The massive, Australia-sized hurricane at its center features prominently in the recording. According to NASA, there's no weather system in the solar system like it — and it has probably been active for decades, if not longer.
"The hexagon is just a current of air, and weather features out there that share similarities to this are notoriously turbulent and unstable," said...
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