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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Hurricane on Saturn [Watch (HLS stream): Hurricane on Saturn](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dmNpqwhl.m3u8) (1:36)  _Published 2013-04-30. NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds a hurricane-like storn at Saturn's north pole_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:33 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [End of Mission for the Cassini Saturn Probe ](/video/CnfXMPms/) ### End of Mission for the Cassini Saturn Probe [In Saturn's Rings](/video/zVaEeiL8/) ### In Saturn's Rings [NASA: Saturn's Weirdest Ring](/video/6fsAPrCy/) ### NASA: Saturn's Weirdest Ring --- ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Hi. I'm Andy Ingersoll, a member of the Cassini imaging team. Cassini has been in orbit around Saturn for nine years, and we've been following this hexagon which surrounds the North Pole. It's bigger than two earths, and it's a wandering jetstream [ MUSIC ] But it's been winter in the north so we have not been able to see what's at the center of the hexagon. [ MUSIC ] But now it's spring, and what we've found at the center of the hexagon is a Saturn hurricane. [ MUSIC ] This is a view from directly over the North Pole which is made possible by the orbit of the spacecraft, which is now taking us over the poles. The winds are flowing at 300 miles an hour, which is four times hurricane force. The fluffy white clouds in the center are about the size of Texas. We can use special filters to measure the heights of the clouds. Red are low clouds and the green are high clouds. We call it a Saturn hurricane because it has the eye, it has the high winds, but it's different from an Earth's hurricane because it's locked to the North Pole. 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