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Mega Hurricane Observed on Saturn

Scientists have discovered a hurricane on Saturn that is 20 times larger and four times faster than the average hurricane on Earth.

"We did a double take when we saw this vortex because it looks so much like a hurricane on Earth," said Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "But there it is at Saturn, on a much larger scale."

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