Saturn’s hexagon made of wind

Cassini’s black-and-white time-lapse of Saturn’s north polar hexagon — NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Hampton University, PIA17652. Original animation resized.

Saturn and its rings in a wider natural-colour Cassini view — NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute, PIA17474.

Saturn has a hexagon made of wind.

A six-sided jet stream, roughly 30,000 km across, circles its north pole. Spacecraft have observed the pattern since the 1980s.

An atmosphere drawing geometry on a planetary scale.

Cassini’s black-and-white time-lapse of Saturn’s north polar hexagon — NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI / Hampton University, PIA17652. Original animation resized.
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Saturn and its rings in a wider natural-colour Cassini view — NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute, PIA17474.
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Saturn’s hexagon made of wind

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