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This image from a movie captured by NASAS Cassini spacecraft shows a south polar vortex, or shows a south polar...
1-9 January 2014. The full-disk images every 3 hours from GOES-WEST capture the sweep of a polar vortex that emerged...
The Polar Vortex is a whirling and persistent large area of low pressure, found typically over both north and south...
These two views of Saturn moon Titan show the southern polar vortex, a huge, swirling cloud that was first observed...
When the polar vortex dips south it often makes headlines. Frigid air, usually confined to the arctic, spills into...
The recently formed south polar vortex stands out in the color-swaddled atmosphere of Saturn largest moon, Titan, in...
NASA's Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument captures a polar vortex moving from Central Canada into the...
This true color image captured by NASAS Cassini spacecraft before a distant flyby of Saturn moon Titan on June 27,...
NASA Cassini spacecraft spies Titan south polar vortex from below the moon in this image. Imaging scientists are...
Titan shows us its active polar atmosphere with the north polar hood and south polar vortex both on display in this...
Titan polar vortex stands illuminated where all else is in shadow in this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft.
Titan atmosphere puts on a display with the detached haze to the north top of image and the polar vortex to the...
Dunes in the Vastitas Borealis region of Mars are seen in this image from NASA Mars Odyssey spacecraft. These sand...
This dramatic close-up of Saturn south pole shows the hurricane-like vortex that resides there. The entire polar...
The Cassini spacecraft views Saturn southern latitudes in color, spying a great, eye-shaped vortex just northward of...
The sunlit edge of Titan south polar vortex stands out distinctly against the darkness of the moon unilluminated...
Titan swirling south-polar vortex stands out brightly against the other clouds of the south pole lower right in this...
NASA Cassini spacecraft monitors Titan developing south polar vortex, which is a mass of swirling gas around the...
Titan south polar vortex seems to float above the moon south pole in this Cassini spacecraft view. The vortex, which...
The area within Saturn north polar hexagon is shown by NASA Cassini spacecraft to contain myriad storms of various...
The spinning vortex of Saturn north polar storm resembles a deep red rose of giant proportions surrounded by green...
Saturn rings obscure part of Titan colorful visage in this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft. The south polar...
This view captured by NASA Cassini spacecraft looks toward the trailing hemisphere of Titan. Titan south polar...
Slipping into shadow, the south polar vortex at Saturn's moon Titan still stands out against the orange and blue...