A "Dry Hurricane" on Saturn!
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An oval-shaped feature, wider than Earth and with streamers extending out to the East and West, swirls in Saturn's Southern Hemisphere.
Like the rainbands of a Southern Hemisphere hurricane on Earth, the streamers spiral into the feature in a clockwise direction.
Unlike Earth's hurricanes, this storm probably contains no liquid water.
The Planet's equatorial Rings cut across the top of the image.
The image was taken in wavelengths of polarized infrared light with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Oct. 30, 2005, at a distance of approximately 324.000 Km (appx. 202.000 miles) from Saturn. The image scale is about 32 Km (appx. 20 miles) per pixel.
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