Huge Hexagon On Saturn's North Pole

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn

March 27, 2007

Pasadena, Calif. -- An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission.

NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has appeared in Cassini images indicates that it is a long-lived feature. A second hexagon, significantly darker than the brighter historical feature, is also visible in the Cassini pictures. The spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer is the first instrument to capture the entire hexagon feature in one image.

Pictures and rest of article:

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

[Onyx]

interesting! Wonder what causes that.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

You should look at Saturn's south pole too. 5,000 mile storm covers it. Looks like an eye.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

OMG.. the guys at NASA are such geeks...

T42: The answer to life, the universe, and everything...

March 25, 2008

With apologies to Douglas Adams, author of the classic science fiction novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy": Earth is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the galaxy. The sapient life forms on Earth are currently sending primitive technology to study the most spectacular planet in the Sun's system: Saturn. On this day, the primitive technology, will fly by Titan, the most Earth-like moon in that solar system. While Earth has been deemed "mostly harmless," the jury is still out on Titan.

[Rev.Reverence]

WOAHHH

I CAN NOT BELIEVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS WEIRDNESS BEFORE NOW.

I WILL SO HAVE TO PUT MY NERD SQUAD ON PROBATION FOR MISSING THIS ONE!!!

[n0Mad]

Crap! They found my summer home.

[phee]

Fascinating

[kellygrrrrrl]

I can't wait til The New Horizons space craft reaches Pluto.....

They say somewhere in 2015 they should reach it....

Just cool cool cool

[Homicidalheathen]

oooh thats cool

I always thought the storms on Jupiter, WERE the lifeforms....that storm had developed 'souls' or a separate yet universal conciousness in a way

It almost looks like a weather stone henge.

Edited March 27, 2008 by Homicidalheathen

[Homicidalheathen]

LOL I wish, the larger/more the better.

Edited March 28, 2008 by Homicidalheathen

[Troy Spiral (13)]

Is the quasi-sharp angles/straight lines that are so difficult to explain on that huge of a scale (that hexagon there is wider than the earth). Spheres and circles are fairly simple to explain, but geometric forms other than circles/spheres on large scales are very problematic.

The angular nature of it is hard to hypothesize about. They've come up with like 10 hypothesis about why its there and then later had to scrap them once they've looked into the guesstimate further.

As to the NASA geeks... the woman that runs the Cassini mission "Madame Saturn" as Neil Tyson calls her, is a major Douglas Adams fan (along with a lot of scientists really). I watched her on the documentary in my signature give a presentation of some of the recent findings, shes an interesting speaker and the findings really are facinating.

Sometimes i wonder how comparative crap like MTV can compete with the universe in terms of peoples interests.

[phee]

Sometimes i wonder how comparative crap like MTV can compete with the universe in terms of peoples interests.

Indeed

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

I often wonder that same thing.

I'm trying to find links... one ofthe other planets has somethign simular... but I read the article a few months ago.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

The Spider

There is this thing on Mercury.

A Black Hole near Jupitor?

They can't explain this either.

[jadnifer]

Very interesting.

[Burrich1]

Sometimes i wonder how comparative crap like MTV can compete with the universe in terms of peoples interests.

Totally agree. The only current events I religiously keep up on is in the space/astronomy section of yahoo. Everything else is hit or miss.

[Homicidalheathen]

wow.

MTV sucks.

The Spider

There is this thing on Mercury.

A Black Hole near Jupitor?

They can't explain this either.