Closing in on Saturn after a 7-year journey, the robotic spacecraft Cassini has discovered two storms on the ringed planet merging into a single, larger, hurricanelike disturbance. The only other time that astronomers have observed merging storms on Saturn was in 1981, when the two Voyager spacecraft flew past the planet.
Cassini first spied the storms in mid-February.
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