ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />Stunning images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provide the first close-up, visible-light views of a massive hurricane churning around Saturn's north pole.<br/> <br />According to NASA, the hurricane's eye is about 1,250 miles (2,000 kilometers) wide, 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on Earth.<br/> <br />The hurricane swirls inside a six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon while thin clouds surround the outer edge of the hurricane, traveling at 330 mph(150 meters per second).<br/> <br />Exactly how long the massive storm has been churning remains unknown, but scientists believe it's been active for years. Cassini's composite infrared spectrometer and visual and infrared mapping spectrometer detected a great vortex in 2004, but the spacecraft was unable to obtain visible-light views because Saturn's north pole was dark as the planet was in the middle of its north polar winter, said NASA.<br/> <br />Visible-light views of the hurricane were seen in
