Guest chax Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/saturn-hexagon/ The Cassini spacecraft has returned the best images yet of the strange hexagonal jet stream that flows around the northern pole of Saturn. First discovered by the Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s, the hexagon remains a beautiful mystery to astronomers, and one they’ve been waiting for another shot to see for almost three decades. “The longevity of the hexagon makes this something special, given that weather on Earth lasts on the order of weeks,” said Kunio Sayanagi, a Cassini project researcher at the California Institute of Technology, in a NASA release. “It’s a mystery on par with the strange weather conditions that give rise to the long-lived Great Red Spot of Jupiter.” The hexagon circles Saturn at 77 degrees north and is wider than two Earths. Nearly everything about the weather pattern is baffling. First, it’s unclear what causes the hexagon. Second, it’s bizarre that the jet stream would make such sharp turns. Earth’s atmospheric movements rarely display such geometric rigor. Fifty-five images were stitched together to create a three-frame animation of the jet stream on the move (see below). The sharp black triangle jutting out of the central black circle is an artifact of the image processing. and here i thought neptune was always the most IDM planet...hmmm bonus photos of saturn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakramer Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 WOOOOOAAAAHHHHH *jaw drops* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chaosmachine Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/and-saturns-hexagon-shall-be-called/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chax Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/and-saturns-hexagon-shall-be-called/ very very interesting...i like the name Omphalos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Glass Plate Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I thought people were talking about that hexagon for ever ago. Watch people actually finally talk about saturn's moon that looks like it's man made 10 year from now as if it was just noticed too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chax Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I thought people were talking about that hexagon for ever ago. Watch people actually finally talk about saturn's moon that looks like it's man made 10 year from now as if it was just noticed too. do you actually believe there is a 'man-made' moon orbiting saturn? who told you this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Glass Plate Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I thought people were talking about that hexagon for ever ago. Watch people actually finally talk about saturn's moon that looks like it's man made 10 year from now as if it was just noticed too. do you actually believe there is a 'man-made' moon orbiting saturn? who told you this No, but there is a moon that orbits Saturn, that has very peculiar land marks including hexagonal craters, a massive wall on equator and a huge tower-like landform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 plz forward to Boc for next album cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAXIMUS MISCHIEF Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 jazz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 I thought people were talking about that hexagon for ever ago. Watch people actually finally talk about saturn's moon that looks like it's man made 10 year from now as if it was just noticed too. they're talking about the new pictures of this thing bud. the ones they've been waiting nearly 3 decades to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 boc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chaosmachine Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 seems like a good enough reason to blow up the moon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beholdapalehorse Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Most definitely on the m-i-c. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 looks like a bumhole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Nice. Cassini is awesome.. it took a photo of an eclipse of Saturn which is one of the greatest ever.. imo. (Earth is the white dot slightly up and left of the planet). higher resolution is better you can see the raw Cassini images as they're processed at http://ciclops.org.. unbelievable stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 that would be http://ciclops.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 and that's why space exploration is a good use of money! Cassini is fucking awesome. that dodgy moon with the equatorial ridge (also one bright face, one fark face - caused by captured rotation and dust and shit) is Iapetus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokoon Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 and that's why space exploration is a good use of money! Cassini is fucking awesome. that dodgy moon with the equatorial ridge (also one bright face, one fark face - caused by captured rotation and dust and shit) is Iapetus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 and that's why space exploration is a good use of money! haha.. agreed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 It's sad that BoC have to stare at their home planet and not be able to return... yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 Iapetus is the Death Star Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 and that's why space exploration is a good use of money! Cassini is fucking awesome. that dodgy moon with the equatorial ridge (also one bright face, one fark face - caused by captured rotation and dust and shit) is Iapetus. that's no moon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokoon Posted December 10, 2009 Share Posted December 10, 2009 but it is. i mean, it's a natural satellite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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