For Your Astronomers: Amazing New Image Of Saturn's Hexagon

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Link: Amazing new image of Saturn's hexagon | Space | EarthSky

 

...Saturn’s hexagon is a weather feature on Saturn, variously said to be a polar vortex or storm or a jet stream, at its north pole. It is so big that two Earths could fit easily, side by side, within its length of about 20,000 miles (about 30,000 km). Saturn’s hexagon has been spinning for years. It looks exactly the same as it did when it was first spotted by NASA’s Voyager 2 space probe in 1981....

 

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Link: Saturn's weird hexagon changes colour - BBC News

 

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