In the maverick science corner: Comparative mythologist Rens Van der Sluijs notes the similarity between the enormous "space tornadoes" detected by the five THEMIS satellites and what primitive man witnessed, often referred to as the "axis mundi," a column of twisting, morphing light connecting the Earth to the heavens. Elsewhere, Stephen Smith reports on observations made by the Cassini space probe of immense hurricanes visiting their fury through the atmosphere of an enigmatic gas giant in Saturn's Raging Storms. Are the Saturnian hurricanes an electrical phenomenon?
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