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To: Kirkwood
It's not, I've seen it in at least a half a dozen other photos in different colour bands. This is the Jet Propulsion Lab's release on this phenomenon.
13 posted on 01/04/2008 9:03:46 AM PST by AntiKev ("No damage. The world's still turning isn't it?" - Stereo Goes Stellar - Blow Me A Holloway)
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To: AntiKev
Hexagons are a pretty "parsimonious" shape -- they appear in nature a lot, as they provide the optimal "packing" arrangement.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that we're seeing the intersection between a series of longitudinally distributed high-latitude cyclonic disturbances caused by something like shear effects between atmostpheric layers, or something like that.

20 posted on 01/04/2008 11:03:50 AM PST by r9etb
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To: AntiKev
Wow. Cassini has yielded SO much fascinating information.
23 posted on 01/04/2008 2:41:39 PM PST by colorado tanker
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