Log in

View Full Version here: : North Pole of Saturn - What the Hex!


Astro78
08-02-2009, 07:29 PM
Voyager discovered and photographed this Phenomenal system in 1980 and more recently a second fly by' Cassini a few years back confirmed the BIZZARE hexagon shape amidst a gas giant. Gas people, gas!

These shapes should not be there, or do not fit into our current understanding of physics. How ever you prefer to roll.

Could this be evidence of another type of force yet undiscovered?

EM and a serious alteration of (our understanding including) - may be the cause too.

What other feesible options are there?

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034

renormalised
08-02-2009, 08:38 PM
Well, looking at the movie of the object, it appears to be rotating as a solid object, much like the GRS on Jupiter. There's even less internal motion in this object than in the GRS. Plus, it's rotating slightly slower than the surrounding clouds. You can clearly see lamina flow around the edges of the object, by looking at the interface between the surroundings and the object. That could possibly explain how straight the edges are. The centre of the object may even be motionless, or near to motionless. Very interesting.

If it's like the polar vortex on Earth, then it's a high pressure zone (also much like the GRS), but unlike on Earth, and much like on Jupiter, this high pressure feature (if it is) could be at some elevation above the surrounding cloud systems.