Cosmic hurricanes are impressive gas windstorms that move at high speed around a cosmic object. What we see in this image is a snapshot of NASA's Cassini- Huygens spacecraft with its two onboard cameras focusing on a giant hurricane circling the north pole of the planet Saturn .
But, what difference is there between a terrestrial hurricane and a cosmic one?
In these hurricanes the magnitudes are of heart attack. Compared to hurricanes on Earth, the eye of the cosmic hurricane observed on Saturn was 20 times larger than the average eye on Earth . The hurricane's few outer clouds traveled at 150 meters per second and stretched more than 2,000 kilometers wide. According to NASA records, they can reach 32 million kilometers per hour, that is, almost 3% of the speed of light .
Another difference with hurricanes on Earth is that strong gas "winds" blow in many different directions , not just one as on our planet.
