Posted on 05/09/2017 11:44:45 AM PDT by BenLurkin
'The region, in shadow for the first part of the Cassini mission, now enjoys full sunlight, which enables Cassini scientists to directly image it in reflected light.'
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'Around it swirl the clouds, driven by the fast winds of Saturn.'
Although the poles of Saturn are at the center of all of this motion, not everything travels around them in circles.
Some of the jet-stream patterns, such as the hexagon-shaped pattern seen here, have wavy, uneven shapes.
The famous hexagon shape itself circumscribes the northern polar vortex seen as a dark spot at the planets pole in the above image which is understood to be the eye of a hurricane-like storm.
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DailyMail comments a debate on “flat Earth”, accusing NASA of using CGI for the Saturn pics
Good LORD!! That would give even the most die-hard Risk pro a cardiac infarction!
This is what England gets for letting in so many Muslims.
Once ignorance gets a toehold it can be hard to uproot.
The Wargamers of SaturnOr an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel.
Awesome title for a sci-fi episode
Yup.
Yup.
Looks like a big areola.
YEARS ago I was traveling the back roads in San Diego County, CA and saw a small peak that looked exactly like a side view of a woman's breast. Intrigued, when I got back home I looked it up in an atlas. It was called "Nellie's Nipple". She must have been quite a gal. :-)
Well, I don’t know about “quick”, LOL.
When my friends and I played it it was called “Drang Nach Osten” and “Untenscheiden” ‘course it was GDW then too....
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