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we've always thought of Saturn being the

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serene body it looks like a pearl in the

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sky with different hues to it due to

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different types of clouds

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what we're seeing is is that if you go

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through those phases and get down to the

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depths of Saturn you find a roiling

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atmosphere and a cyclone was probably

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one manifestation of this traumatic

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dynamics we didn't realize that there

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was a cyclone in the South Pole year ago

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was the surprise was we see essentially

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the same type of a feature in a North

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Pole the North Pole has a hexagon around

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it you know these cyclones on Saturn are

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huge you can fit at least one earth in

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one case and tourists another case

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inside these things and they have

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powerful winds near the center of about

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300 miles an hour so in a lot of ways

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these are the most powerful cyclones

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ever seen both earth and Saturn work on

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the same laws of physics but the earth

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has this vast reservoir called an ocean

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which can take up heat and absorber from

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the Sun and then release it under the

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right conditions to create a hurricane

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on Saturn we have internal heat deep

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down it's been powered by processes that

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are happening deep into the atmosphere

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of Saturn what it shows us is there's

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some bizarre physics going on on Saturn

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that is it's drawing large amounts of

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energy from the inside of Saturn to

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power these storms

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we're talking again about a storm system

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that's about 20,000 kilometers across or

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even larger that's a gigantic storm

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system so it's the largest storm system

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of this type we've seen anywhere in the

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solar system and now we seem to of them

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on both poles it shows us that Saturn is