Waspie_Dwarf Posted December 4, 2013 #1 Share Posted December 4, 2013 NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has obtained the highest-resolution movie yet of a unique six-sided jet stream, known as the hexagon, around Saturn's north pole.This is the first hexagon movie of its kind, using color filters, and the first to show a complete view of the top of Saturn down to about 70 degrees latitude. Spanning about 20,000 miles (30,000 kilometers) across, the hexagon is a wavy jet stream of 200-mile-per-hour winds (about 322 kilometers per hour) with a massive, rotating storm at the center. There is no weather feature exactly, consistently like this anywhere else in the solar system. Read more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waspie_Dwarf Posted December 7, 2013 Author #2 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Saturn's Unique Hexagon in Full ViewNew views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft of the unique six-sided jet stream around Saturn's north pole known as 'the hexagon.'Credit: NASA/JPLSource: NASA/JPL - Videos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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