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April 30, 2013
Huge hurricane on Saturn, first time in color
The spacecraft Cassini, sent by +NASA has provided scientists of the +NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of +NASA , the +European Space Agency, ESA and the Italian Space Agency. High-resolution pictures and video indicated the hurricane's eye is about 1,250 miles wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth.
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