Big Pic: A Hurricane On Saturn, In Incredible Technicolor
Saturn In Technicolor This spectacular, vertigo-inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. Low-lying clouds circling inside the hexagonal feature appear in muted orange. A second, smaller vortex pops out in teal at the lower right of the image. The rings of Saturn appear in vivid blue at the top right. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSICassini spots a huge hurricane swirling at Saturn's north pole. The hellish red hurricane at the center of this picture may look like a harbinger of destruction, but it is stuck in place with nowhere else to go. The storm has been swirling in the north for who knows how long at Saturn's north pole. These are the first views of the monstrous hurricane, taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Its eye...