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When the polar vortex dips south it often makes headlines. Frigid air, usually confined to the arctic, spills into...
Convection in Saturn Southern Vortex
Leading Edge Vortex Suppression Series
Titan polar vortex stands illuminated where all else is in shadow in this image from NASA Cassini spacecraft.
This image from a movie captured by NASAS Cassini spacecraft shows a south polar vortex, or shows a south polar...
A vortex that was part of a giant storm on Saturn slowly dissipates over time in this set of false color images from...
The sunlit edge of Titan south polar vortex stands out distinctly against the darkness of the moon unilluminated...
This close-up view of Saturn atmosphere shows a circular vortex surrounded by numerous attendant bright clouds. Some...
This frame from an animation from NASA Cassini spacecraft shows the swirling clouds in a vortex spawned by a great...
Wake Vortex behind a helicopter (Illustration)
NASA Cassini spacecraft simultaneously peers through the haze in Titan equatorial region down to its surface and...
Wake Vortex behind a helicopter describing Longitudinal Cores (Secondary Vortes Generation) from Aviatsiya /...
These two views of Saturn moon Titan show the southern polar vortex, a huge, swirling cloud that was first observed...
The Polar Vortex is a whirling and persistent large area of low pressure, found typically over both north and south...
1-9 January 2014. The full-disk images every 3 hours from GOES-WEST capture the sweep of a polar vortex that emerged...
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 photograph depicts one of over thirty tests conducted on the Vortex Combustion Chamber Engine at Marshall Space...
Leading Edge Vortex Suppression Series with Christine Darden in photos
This true color image captured by NASAS Cassini spacecraft before a distant flyby of Saturn moon Titan on June 27,...
NASA Cassini spacecraft captures three magnificent sights at once: Saturn north polar vortex and hexagon along with...