Are there hurricanes on Saturn?

Yes, in 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured a view of a hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. Scientists believe the storm has been churning for years.

The eye is about 1,250 miles wide, and 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth. The hurricane swirls inside a large, six-sided hexagon pattern and it is somehow getting by on the small amounts of water vapor in Saturn's hydrogen atmosphere.

A major difference between the hurricanes is that the one on Saturn is much bigger than its counterparts on Earth and spins surprisingly fast. At Saturn, the wind in the eye wall blows more than four times faster than hurricane-force winds on Earth. Unlike terrestrial hurricanes, which tend to move, the Saturnian hurricane is locked onto the planet's north pole. On Earth, hurricanes tend to drift northward because of the forces acting on the fast swirls of wind as the planet rotates.