Thursday, December 10, 2009

Hexagon on Saturn, thirty years on

I love that we can do this stuff!

30 years ago, the Voyager spacecraft spotted this for the first time. Now as spring begins again on Saturn (one saturnian year being approximately thirty earth years), the Cassini spacecraft has a chance to look again, and the hexagon is still there. No-one's quite sure what causes it, but I'll be very interested to hear the theories. More info below:

Saturn's Hexagon

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