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Stormy Skies
Oval-shaped storms as big as countries drift with the winds in the northern hemisphere of Saturn in this recent image from the Cassini spacecraft. To the eye alone, Saturn looks fairly calm. But Cassini's cameras can peer beneath the haze at the top of its atmosphere to see storms and other features. Saturn's high-speed rotation creates bands of clouds that stretch all the way around the planet. Strong winds separate the bands. [NASA/JPL/SSI]
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