Saturn's North Pole is freaking awesome. The polar latitudes are bounded by jet streams which form it into a hexagon. The pole itself is a huge long lived vortex of terror the size of North America. These images show the hexagon and vortex in natural color and in a near-infrared false color using images taken by NASA's Cassini orbiter.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill

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