freaky saturn

[imthefrgt10]

What IS it? A huge, six-sided honeycomb-like "feature" that is circling the north pole of Saturn has been photographed by NASA's Cassini Orbiter. Space.com reports that unlike the normal cloud structures that are visible on all planets with atmospheres, this thing is a hexagon. And it's been around a while. The odd feature was first spotted 26 years ago by NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft. Now Cassini has shot some amazing photos.

"This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., told Space.com. "We've never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn's thick atmosphere, where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate, is perhaps the last place you'd expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is."
And it's huge! The mysterious hexagon is almost 15,000 miles across and extends about 60 miles down into the clouds. Based on images captured more than two decades ago by Voyager, it appears that the hexagon has remained fixed with Saturn's rotation rate and axis. Meanwhile, at the south pole of Saturn, a hurricane is raging--or it appears to be a hurricane. "It's amazing to see such striking differences on opposite ends of Saturn's poles," Bob Brown, team leader of the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer at the University of Arizona, told Space.com. "At the south pole we have what appears to be a hurricane with a giant eye, and at the north pole of Saturn we have this geometric feature, which is completely different."

link to origin
http://channels.isp.netscape.com/wha...=20070329-0852

link to the pictures
http://channels.isp.netscape.com/wha...9-0852&photo=2


http://channels.isp.netscape.com/wha...9-0852&photo=3

ok well personally, ide think of it as just a freak occurance on a planet nothin major, but when i saw that the shape is almost layered like a stair case it made me think otherwise

[tnick777]

It's Saron's eye....

Just kidding.

It could just be a phenominom. Like how sound waves make geometric patterns in sand.

[Lunar4]

Its an Inter dimensional portal. I can guarantee it.

[empty]

I couldn't see the hexagonal form on those pics!...
I don't know, could be a plain coincidence, a (rare to our knowledge, yet...) phenomenom.
Nice subject to talk about, intriguing and fascinating.

[Lunar4]

you couldnt see it?...



not hard to spot