[lbryce]

The first look ever at Saturn's swirling North Pole were only partial images sent by the 1980's Voyager fly-by craft that surely must have confounded scientists with the enigmatic hexagonal shape. The theory at the time that the swirling hexagon on Saturn's North Pole were merely temporary was found to be emphatically wrong when twenty years later Cassini's cameras proved the daunting vision of the Saturn's swirling North Pole a permanent fixture of the planet.

[lbryce]

Saturn ping

[Zuben Elgenubi]

This is a raw image, acquired in polarized light, from a distance of 238,045 miles

That's about the distance from the earth to the moon.

Thanks for the post, marvelous photos.

[aquila48]

Great pictures!!

Any idea what the wind speeds are?

[US Navy Vet]

Isen’t MY G*D AWESOME!

[Captain Rhino]

Has there been any theorizing on the mechanism that is creating a standing hexagonal wind flow pattern at the North Pole?

[Darksheare]

I categorically deny that this is my fault.
Why?
I'm just preempting it.

[Night Hides Not]

I could’ve sworn I saw the Monolith at the left edge of the third picture.

[Gasshog]

probably only permanent in the sense of thousands of years. 20 yrs is nothing to the gas giant.

[NormsRevenge]

Very cool images! Thanks!

[zeugma]

Awesome pics

[bunkerhill7]

Incredible Raw Image of Saturn’s Swirling North Pole (Saturn's Enigmatic Swirling Snowflake)

[martin_fierro]

Then there are the twin vortices on Venus' south pole.

[MinuteGal]

Isn't that vortex actually the Nine Levels of Hell from "Dante's Inferno"?

I think I see Obama swimming around at about the third level....you can spot him by his tail.

Leni

[Red Badger]

Saturn’s North Pole Hexagon Mystery Solved?

http://news.discovery.com/space/saturns-north-pole-hexagon-mystery-solved.html