The Week In Numbers: Size Of Saturn's Hurricane, Cost Of A Touchscreen-Enabled Home, And More
Hurricane on Saturn This spectacular, vertigo-inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. The rings of Saturn appear in vivid blue at the top right. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI 1,250 miles: the diameter of a monstrous hurricane on Saturn, captured in spectacular detail by NASA's Cassini spacecraft 75 percent: the portion of commonly used lipsticks and lip-glosses that tested positive for lead in a recent study 2015: the year this single-seat airplane is set to circumnavigate the world on sun power alone (it began its journey across the U.S. this morning) 800,000 tonnes: the amount of garbage Norway imported from Sweden last year (yes, Norway is running out of garbage, and it's a problem) $5: the cost to turn every screen in your home into a touchscreen 10,000: the number of...