Saturday, September 01, 2007

Human-ish Eye at Saturn's South Pole

There are some things about space that NASA doesn't tell the general public because people would get all freaked out.

Behold, The Human-ish Eye at Saturn's South Pole.

A freaky storm two-thirds the diameter of Earth and unlike anything ever seen has been spotted on Saturn.

The tempest, some 5,000 miles wide (8,000 kilometers), has an oddly human-looking hurricane-like eye

NASA's Cassini spacecraft photographed the huge storm. It swirls with 350 mph winds at the ringed planet's south pole.

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