I think we can safely conclude that Saturn is not a squash. But it might be a vine fruit of some kind. Where is the vine now?
Posted on 07/24/2022 4:10:49 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Many details of Saturn appear clearly in infrared light. Bands of clouds show great structure, including long stretching storms. Also quite striking in infrared is the unusual hexagonal cloud pattern surrounding Saturn's North Pole. Each side of the dark hexagon spans roughly the width of our Earth. The hexagon's existence was not predicted, and its origin and likely stability remains a topic of research. Saturn's famous rings circle the planet and cast shadows below the equator. The featured image was taken by the robotic Cassini spacecraft in 2014 in several infrared colors. In 2017 September, the Cassini mission was brought to a dramatic conclusion when the spacecraft was directed to dive into ringed giant.
It looks cool. Too bad Nancy Pelosi will be trying to ban it.
How long can an ordered atmospheric gaseous structure last? Interesting conundrum.
Or, if you push down on it at just the right speed to just the right depth, it might open up an inter-dimensional doorway that would let the Cenobites through . . .
Interesting that the area of that hexagon is about a fifth of the earth’s surface if flattened.
miscalc, actually closer to 75 per cent.
What is the big dark shape on the left like a planet hovering next to Saturn and cutting off the rings?
Only the shadow knows, lol.
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Thanks. I kinda felt bad for the narrator cause he said that nothing big is planned for Saturn missions for a few decades but he will post an explanation when new info comes in...who knows how long that will be. But it was an informative discussion. I am glad he did correctly say that we still really don’t know.
I think we can safely conclude that Saturn is not a squash. But it might be a vine fruit of some kind. Where is the vine now?
That hexagonal polar region always floors me. Some years ago I could just get a glimpse of it in my refractor, but thanks to Cassini, new it was there.
I probably would’ve missed it otherwise.
I don’t think it has been figured out yet, has it?
Maybe the hex is the mark that an improper stand left. Maybe it was Amazon women that used to own it.
No, the Amazon Women are on the Moon…
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092546/
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