It has been pretty windy around here lately, but I just read about a storm that defies comparison anywhere on Earth…

Cassini — a spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral in 1997 — has sent back some dramatic pictures of a colossal hurricane at Saturn’s North Pole.

The eye of the storm is over two-thousand kilometers in diameter, twenty times the size of a typical hurricane on Earth. Scientists believe that the storm has been active for years, with its epicenter anchored at the North Pole where water vapor must be fueling the hurricane. Clouds reach speeds of over five hundred kilometers per hour at the periphery of the hurricane.

NASA constructed a video (with informative audio) from the images gathered by Cassini

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