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Keith Cooper

The north pole of Uranus has a stormy vortex and we've just seen it for the 1st time (photo)

Three views of Uranus showing its newly discovered bright polar cap, which looks white, green and blue in these processed images taken in microwave light. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/VLA)

A vortex of relatively warm air has been detected swirling beneath Uranus' clouds, providing strong evidence for the existence of a cyclone anchored at the planet's north pole. 

The findings add fuel to the fire that Uranus is not as atmospherically inert as it initially seemed when NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past the "ice giant" in January 1986.

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