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icytailmark
05-12-2013, 10:17 PM
Im not sure if anyone has seen the new images cassini just took of the Hexagon storm on saturn. Wow it looks amazing check it out.

http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/saturn-north-pole-hexagon-20131204.html#.UqBgHcQW3D4

Kunama
06-12-2013, 01:18 PM
That is bizarre, perhaps some magnetic field is causing the peculiar shape.

SkyViking
06-12-2013, 02:04 PM
It's a standing wave, which happens to appear as a hexagon when it is wrapped around the pole :)