Website review: JPL.NASA.GOV: News Releases
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•28 reviews since Mar 27, 2007
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Henri451 rated 3 months ago- Etrange forme hexagonale au pôle nord de Saturne
- crackedall rated 11 months ago
- truly intriguing
- Y-i-l rated 14 months ago
- Truly fascinating.
- aljis rated 14 months ago
From the page: "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. "
- coop2 rated 16 months ago
- Hey look! Giant rotating Stop sign found on Saturn! NASA officials speculate this stream-lined six sided stop sign could be a more efficient traffic control symbol than our octagonal Stop signs.Closer scrutiny revealed that it is actually one of those trendy rotating view restaurants, putting to rest Pentagon offical's concerns that it could indicate Saturn has a superior multi-faceted military command complex.
- redshift13 rated 16 months ago
- "This nighttime view of Saturn's north pole shows a bizarre six-sided hexagon feature encircling the entire north pole. The red color indicates the amount of 5-micron wavelength radiation, or heat, generated in the warm interior of Saturn that escapes the planet." Very curious and interesting indeed. Nature never ceases to amaze, and neither does the fact that I'm sitting right here right now able to see an image like this on my desktop.
- JoseL0 rated 16 months ago
- From the page:
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.
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The hexagon is similar to Earth's polar vortex, which has winds blowing in a circular pattern around the polar region. On Saturn, the vortex has a hexagonal rather than circular shape. The hexagon is nearly 25,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) across. Nearly four Earths could fit inside it.
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- CH rated 16 months ago
- From the page: "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" No shit. And this from a planet where we think lenticular cloud formations and lights in the sky are bloody awesome. So much we don't know. Makes my head hurt :(
