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Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon

Originally shared by Corina Marinescu

Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon

Extending to 70 degrees north latitude, the false-color video frame is map-projected, based on infrared, visible, and ultraviolet image data recorded by the Saturn-orbiting spacecraft in late 2012. First found in the outbound Voyager flyby images from the 1980s, the bizarre, long-lived feature tied to the planet’s rotation is about 30,000 kilometers across.

At its center lies the ringed gas giant’s hurricane-like north polar storm. A new long term study of Cassini data has found a remarkable higher-altitude vortex, exactly matching the outlines of the north polar hexagon, that formed as summer approached the planet’s northern hemisphere. It appears to reach hundreds of kilometers above these deeper cloud tops, into Saturn’s stratosphere.

Info via APOD

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

#space #NASA #Cassini #Saturn #science #universe

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Charles Payet
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September 9, 2018
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