Tuesday 26 August 2014

Saturn's Amazing Six-Sided Hurricane

image credit: Jason Major

At four times the size of our pale blue dot, there is a storm raging over Saturn's north pole - and it is six-sided. That's right - a hexagonal hurricane. How did this geometric shape come to be, what caused it?

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Anonymous said...

Benard cell

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This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory DGCustomerFirst

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