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"Explanation: Why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn? Nobody is sure. Originally discovered during the Voyager flybys of Saturn in the 1980s, nobody has ever seen anything like it anywhere else in the Solar System. Acquiring its first sunlit views of far northern Saturn in late 2012, the Cassini spacecraft's wide-angle camera recorded this stunning, false-color image of the ringed planet's north pole. The composite of near-infrared image data results in red hues for low clouds and green for high ones, giving the Saturnian cloudscape a vivid appearance. This and similar images show the stability of the hexagon even 20+ years after Voyager. Movies of Saturn's North Pole show the cloud structure maintaining its hexagonal structure while rotating. Unlike individual clouds appearing like a hexagon on Earth, the Saturn cloud pattern appears to have six well defined sides of nearly equal length. Four Earths could fit inside the hexagon. Beyond the cloud tops at the upper right, arcs of the planet's eye-catching rings are tinted bright blue."

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fans of this hexagon may enjoy the video game Observation, which did a great job turning it into a fun scifi-horror centerpiece. :) it's not a perfect game - particularly, it has a tendency to clutter the screen with things that may or may not be clickable - but it's really good nonetheless if you luke space horror.

Anyway this hexagon is dope and sounds fake when you tell people about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hexagon is bestagon ๐Ÿ‘