Giant Hexagon Eating Saturn
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034
I think it's hungry. And creepy.
Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
March 27, 2007
Pasadena, Calif. -- 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.
"This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "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."
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034
I think it's hungry. And creepy.
Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
March 27, 2007
Pasadena, Calif. -- 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.
"This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "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."
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one would think that there might be another such shape in the clouds on the southern pole of saturn, however upon investigation there is none to be found. the only thing on the southern pole of saturn is what appears to be a giant hurricane.
as for how the shape can be made, I believe that it has to do with similar principles to those stated in the following paper found here: http://www.theflowingofthedao.com/wordpress/?p=1593
it's a little intensive on the math, but the process seems to me that it might work for varying densities of gas and atmosphere as well...
... ah, physics and astronomy, I love it.
as for how the shape can be made, I believe that it has to do with similar principles to those stated in the following paper found here: http://www.theflowingofthedao.com/wordpress/?p=1593
it's a little intensive on the math, but the process seems to me that it might work for varying densities of gas and atmosphere as well...
... ah, physics and astronomy, I love it.
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Freaky! Who would have thought?one would think that there might be another such shape in the clouds on the southern pole of saturn, however upon investigation there is none to be found. the only thing on the southern pole of saturn is what appears to be a giant hurricane.
as for how the shape can be made, I believe that it has to do with similar principles to those stated in the following paper found here: http://www.theflowingofthedao.com/wordpress/?p=1593
it's a little intensive on the math, but the process seems to me that it might work for varying densities of gas and atmosphere as well...
... ah, physics and astronomy, I love it.
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funny comic Khaz, lol.
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I think xkcd is an interesting comic, because just when you think the artist has no talent for visual art, he makes a beautiful landscape. It's always a pleasant surprise.Call me strange, but I require a certain amount of drawing effort to get me to read a webcomic on a regular basis. Even "Dinosaur Comics" and "Partially Clips," as consistently funny as they are, remain off my agenda due to the cartoonists being concerned almost exclusively with the writing.
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