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What is a space hurricane?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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What Is Going on on the North Pole of Saturn?

Saturn has an amazing storm on its north pole, which is in the shape of a hexagon weed. There are these great white spots on saturn that scientists think have the same fundamental mechanisms as hurricanes here on earth. And this one was ten thousand times stronger than storms we see here on earth, and lasted for eight months. Cassine did it like death dive into saturn and gave us some measurements about what was going on inside of it.

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