Cassini beams back stunning new photos of Saturn's hexagonal north polar region

[gary]

Story and photos here -
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6693

[multiweb]

So cool. What's causing this hexagonal shape? Turbulence and rotation? Funny that it makes straight edges. :question:

[blink138]

nearly as good as john hothersalls piture!
pat

[Kunama]

They don't know the cause but expect that the last 42 orbits and subsequent dive into the planet will give them the answer. I went to briefing recently by Linda Spilker and Earl Maize at the ANU and that question was raised there as well.