Stunning Shots Show Saturn's Hexagon Vortex

The U.S. space agency NASA has released stunning video of Saturn’s six-sided vortex, known as the hexagon. NASA says the video of the storm that swirls around the top of the giant planet is the first of its kind. It was captured by the Cassini probe. The hexagon is a wavy jet stream of 322 kilometer-per hour wind, with a massive storm at its center. The whole thing measures some 30,000 kilometers across. NASA says there is no weather feature exactly, consistently like this anywhere...

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