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.
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Fungus!
#20. You say assteroids, I say hemorrhoids!
Superb reply!!
*APOD ping*
It’s a crop hexagon.
Not many will get that! ~Nathan Brazil
The wrench and socket that fits it will be on sake at Harbor Freight with 20% coupon.
That remark is sixist!
He wasn’t the only one who got it. I love that series.
Jupiter has a cloud formation in the shape of a decagon. I sent ten probes with ten puns to see if any would “land” with the good folks of Jupiter. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.
Since Space Force has been created shouldn’t the Pentagon become the Hexagon as well?
“The dynamics of fluid flow are at the heart why this kind of feature can arise at planetare scale.”
Surely the base molecules that comprise Jupiter factor into this phenomenon.
Occupy Saturn.
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