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However, Venus has the thickest atmosphere of any of the terrestrial planets, reaching 93 bar at the surface, the equivalent of being 900 meters underwater on Earth.

Near the surface, the air flows slowly.

However, tens of kilometers up, Venus's winds can be fast, around 400 kilometers per hour.

This means that Venus is also a super rotator.

Venus does get lightning storms from time to time, but the really interesting storms are found around the poles again.

Venus, like Titan, has polar vortices, but in the case of Venus, they are over both poles.

These ones are also much larger, around the size of Europe.

Found toward the center of these vortices are not one, but two eyes.

This is quite unique, and the case for it is currently unknown.

Space agencies have begun eyeing up Venus again recently, so hopefully it won't be too long before we get fresh data about this mysterious world.

Number six, Uranus's storms.

A quick glance at a natural color image of Uranus doesn't seem to reveal much in the way of dynamic activity at all.

In the infrared, that is a different story.

Large bands span the planet, and active storms light up against the cooler surroundings.

A high contrast natural color view of Uranus from Hubble shows one of these storms, perhaps the biggest observed on Uranus, reaching two-thirds the size of the US.

Uranus does seem to generally be a calmer place compared to Neptune, although this shows that giant storms are still possible here.

This could be because Uranus doesn't seem to emanate heat as much as Neptune, meaning the engine driving such storms would not be as strong.

Number five, Jupiter's polar vortices.

If you thought Venus was impressive with two eyes around its polar vortices, check out this amazing configuration of vortices found around the poles of Jupiter.

Around the north pole are nine distinct vortices, kind of in a square shape, with a massive cyclone found in the center.