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To: MtnClimber

Saturn is, indeed, a spectacularly weird place! The south pole has auroras and the north pole has this bizarre hexagon, with a rotating center:

...and that looks like one, small aurora at ~8:55 in the first frame of the animated GIF...

TXnMA

7 posted on 06/27/2021 4:43:31 PM PDT by TXnMA (The Democrat Party has a single-element strategy: CHEATING... Reinstate Public Executions!)

To: MtnClimber

APOD doesn't seem to have the animated hexagon, but APOD for 2009 December 14 has the first full-on image of it -- in B&W:

Looks somewhat ominous, to me, but the hexagonal wall shows a bizarrely intricate, twisted, rope-like structure at these wavelengths...

8 posted on 06/27/2021 5:07:01 PM PDT by TXnMA (The Democrat Party has a single-element strategy: CHEATING... Reinstate Public Executions!)

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