NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon

NASA.gov ^ | 12/04/13

[oxcart]

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn's north pole.

This is the first hexagon movie of its kind, using color filters, and the first to show a complete view of the top of Saturn down to about 70 degrees latitude. Spanning about 20,000 miles (30,000 kilometers) across, the hexagon is a wavy jet stream of 200-mile-per-hour winds (about 322 kilometers per hour) with a massive, rotating storm at the center. There is no weather feature exactly, consistently like this anywhere else in the solar system.

"The hexagon is just a current of air, and weather features out there that share similarities to this are notoriously turbulent and unstable," said Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. "A hurricane on Earth typically lasts a week, but this has been here for decades -- and who knows -- maybe centuries."

[oxcart]

[oxcart]

Via...suspicious0bservers.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ6CTghtaI4&list=UUTiL1q9YbrVam5nP2xzFTWQ

[Adder]

“A hurricane on Earth typically lasts a week, but this has been here for decades — and who knows — maybe centuries.”

Really neat pictures...but how can they say how long these last?

[Red Badger]

Maybe God is trying to tell us something.............

[Yo-Yo]

Confirmation of Richard Hoagland's Hyerdimensional Physics?

[blueunicorn6]

Look real close at this. Closer! Concentrate!

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[Izzy Dunne]

"The hexagon is just a current of air,

Wow - there's air on Saturn - who knew?

[Izzy Dunne]

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I'm trying... I'm trying...

Must know your bank account number...

[blueunicorn6]

It’s.......Wait a minute......so.......you are impervious to my hypnotism......so is Marie Osmond......dang it.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks oxcart, extra to APoD.

Bizarre Saturn Vortex Swirls in Stunning New NASA Video (aka The Hexagon)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3098679/posts

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GROOVY, MAN, I MEAN, JUST WOW!!!!!(LOL)

[martin_fierro]

Dual vortices @ Venus south pole

I'll leave Uranus out of this.

[dfwgator]

[SunkenCiv]

Looks like Gollum.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1095247/posts?page=42#42

[bigheadfred]

Send blueunicorn6 your money.

what good would our money be on your home planet cause it near to worthless here

and ive seen that kind of hexagonal turbulence before just after a glygorpian armada emerged from a transdimensional gate

[infool7]

It kind of reminds me of something I've seen in Ireland, at the Giant's Causeway.

[Moonman62]

It’s probably not all that unusual where the currents are strong and steady without any land mass interference. Strong hurricanes on Earth have had pentagon cloud structures in the eye.

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2010/2471.html

[Moonman62]

Really neat pictures...but how can they say how long these last?

I believe one of the Voyagers imaged the hexagon over 30 years ago.

[SunkenCiv]

Don’t get me started on those d###ed glygorpians!