Posted on 07/06/2020 8:53:41 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure. Originally discovered during the Voyager flybys of Saturn in the 1980s, nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System. Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northern Saturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera recorded this stunning, false-color image of the ringed planet's north pole. The composite of near-infrared image data results in red hues for low clouds and green for high ones, giving the Saturnian cloudscape a vivid appearance. This and similar images show the stability of the hexagon even 20+ years after Voyager. Movies of Saturn's North Pole show the cloud structure maintaining its hexagonal structure while rotating. Unlike individual clouds appearing like a hexagon on Earth, the Saturn cloud pattern appears to have six well defined sides of nearly equal length. Four Earths could fit inside the hexagon. Beyond the cloud tops at the upper right, arcs of the planet's eye-catching rings appear bright blue.
(Excerpt) Read more at apod.nasa.gov ...
Is there a hexagon at the southern pole as well?
According to NASA, no. Only in the Northern hemisphere.
The Saturn Department of Defense is located in the Hexagon.
Protomolecule!
I knew it. There’s a massive BOLT holding that sphere together.
The dynamics of fluid flow are at the heart why this kind of feature can arise at planetare scale. I’ve seen it duplicated in a research lab setting. Still fascinating though.
That’s the hole where you put the thingy to keep it pumped up.
Maybe ...
You are correct.
You’re gonna need a bigger hex nut wrench.
Naw, it’s to be tightened up with a hex wrench.
There are hexagonal craters on moons and asteroids. Ubiquitous shape. Reproducible in the lab with electric arcing, this implies electric current along a magnetic field.
Just an alien soccer field, is all.
Or a large socket. Only question is it standard or metric?!
I can see Uranus from here!
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