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Massive Hurricane on Saturn

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Adam Rifkin
Adam Rifkin
7:01 PM Dec 29 2014

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Reddit comment by cabuki:

The hurricane is about 20000 miles across, which is about 2.3 times the diameter of the earth. The eye that is in the picture is ~1750 miles across, which is about half the width of USA at the widest.

Scale comparison by jmarsh376:

massive hurricane on Saturn the Rose compared to Earth for scale meme photo Imgur

Adam Rifkin
Adam Rifkin
7:04 PM Dec 29 2014

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