Saturn has this hexagon.....

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It does!!!

http://spaceweather.com/swpod2007/28mar07/hexaurora_strip.jpg

BIZARRE HEXAGON: "We've never seen anything like it on any other planet," says atmospheric scientist Kevin Baines of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It is a hexagon twice as wide as Earth encircling Saturn's north pole. First observed by the Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s, the hexagon has been sighted anew by the Cassini probe:

In this infrared photo taken by Cassini's VIMS camera, the blue color traces auroras at high altitudes in Saturn's atmosphere. Red indicates the amount heat filtering up through clouds below. Researchers believe the auroras and the hexagon are unrelated.

The hexagon could be a distant cousin of Earth's polar vortex, but while Earth's vortex is a circle, Saturn's may be molded into a hexagon by some strange pattern of atmospheric waves. "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," says Baines. In short, it's a mystery.......

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Not to derail a potentially fascinating thread, but I initially read your title as "Satan has this hexagon...." which would also be potentially fascinating.

Do you suppose there is oil under the hexagon?

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Noddy24 wrote:

Not to derail a potentially fascinating thread, but I initially read your title as "Satan has this hexagon...." which would also be potentially fascinating.

Do you suppose there is oil under the hexagon?

Wouldn't that be if it was a shell?

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Noddy I think Satan is more your penta type of girl rather than hexa type.

I found your post most interesting dlowan. Its just that I have nothing to contribute except the above drivel.

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dadpad wrote:

Noddy I think Satan is more your penta type of girl rather than hexa type.

I found your post most interesting dlowan. Its just that I have nothing to contribute except the above drivel.

Well, I suspect that either ooh aah, or witty drivel, is about allthere is to say, unless one happens to have the sort of knowledge that has light to throw upon it.

Perhaps Farmerman, for instance, wil be able to say something simply stunning?

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As long as drivel is ok, I'll add an ooh. Looks nice. Read the article. It didn't explain the ball-like thing in the middle.

Love dem hexagons.

Hope this is sufficiently drivelish--or devilish if you follow Noddy's reading of the situation.

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Roberta wrote:

It didn't explain the ball-like thing in the middle.

I thought it looked like a nipple but I was bottle fed so that would explain it.

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dadpad wrote:

Roberta wrote:
It didn't explain the ball-like thing in the middle.

I thought it looked like a nipple but I was bottle fed so that would explain it.

Ok, it's clear.

Someone has to be brave enough to say it.

It's a ******* great space base, clearly.

Come on.

That thing ain't natural.

I think the nipple is designed to pass as a crater, but it's got an HUMUNGOUS building in it.

At least, whoever they are, we know they're mammals.

Phew...

It isn't April 1st anywhere, yet, is it?

Like on Saturn?

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Hey, I was bottle-fed, but it doesn't look like a nipple to me. It looks like a giant, too-round, too-perfectly shaped ball.

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Ha...this claims to explain it...with buckets of water yet!

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060515/full/060515-17.html

It's an innie:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/saturn/images/PIA09188-th200.jpg

More info:

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=2552

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Bucket, shmucket.

or

Innie shminnie.

I'm suspicious of the whole thing.

But it does look nice.

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Here's some great images:

I told you...great images!!!

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When you're right, you're right. Great images. Thanks, kid.

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They're trying to communicate!

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littlek wrote:

They're trying to communicate!

Whaddaya think they're trying to say?

"Bees rule, OK!"?

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Bees?!

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Roberta wrote:

Bees?!

Honeycomb:

http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4TH/KKHP/1INSECTS/bugpix/beehoney.JPEG

Saturn:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/172367main_pia09186-330.jpg

Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
03.27.07 -- 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.

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You might actually be onto something there Dlowan. Apparently the hexagon is the strongest naturally occurring geometric shape.

Now, given saturns size, the forces acting on a naturally formed structure (and I include gas formations in this) would be enormous. If for some obscure reason the structure being shown had to hold together a hexagon would a reasonable shape for it to develope into.

There's absolutly no science in that by the way.

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maybe God is seeing another planet on the down low.....

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I think the Eeties just get bored, and make up **** like this to mystify us, and then crack up at the response.

In effect, Miss Wabbit, they think we're suckers . . .

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Saturn has this hexagon.....

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