NASA's Cassini spacecraft sent back breathtaking images of a massive swirling storm near the north pole of Saturn. The first four images above show the spectacular vortex that was photographed on November 27, 2012 at a distance of around 250,000 miles from Saturn.
A story about the storm on NASA's website says that the Cassini spacecraft has been traveling the Saturnian system in a set of inclined, or tilted, orbits that give mission scientists a vertigo-inducing view of Saturn's polar regions. This perspective has yielded images of roiling storm clouds and the swirling vortex at the center of Saturn's famed north polar hexagon.
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