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What is a space hurricane?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Great Red Spot and the Great Dark Spot

Mercury has a thin atmosphere so there aren't really storms to speak of in terms of winds. But it's very close to the sun, and interacts with its magnetic field. So you get these magnetic tornadoes where charged particles move around magnetic fields. These are called solar tornadoes, but they don't actually spin. They're just long towers of plasma that are like several times the size of the earth.

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