Here’s what a 1,250-mile wide storm that is raging on Saturn looks like
The eye of the storm spinning above Saturn’s north pole is 1,250 miles wide.
Saturn has one wild polar jet stream.
Moving at an astonishing 200 mph, the wind pattern known as "the hexagon" has been whipping around the planet's north pole for decades.
It has six different sides, as you can see here:
(Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI)
It's also spawned the insane 1,250-mile-wide rotating storm on Saturn's north pole, pictured at the top of this story.
First discovered by NASA's Voyager 1 space probe during its voyage through the outer solar system in the 1980s, the jet stream is several thousand miles long and could encompass the Earth twice.
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has captured the most detailed and comprehensive images of the fast-moving system yet.
(Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI)
Watch video of the chaotic jet stream here:
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