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A partial view of Saturn's north pole, 2016. Saturn's hexagon is a persistent approximately hexagonal cloud pattern around the north pole of the planet Saturn, located at about 78°N.
Saturn's north and south pole in infrared A persisting hexagonal wave pattern around the north polar vortex in the atmosphere at about 78°N was first noted in the Voyager images. [ 69 ] [ 70 ] [ 71 ] The sides of the hexagon are each about 14,500 km (9,000 mi) long, which is longer than the diameter of the Earth. [ 72 ]
English: Satellite picture of the "hexagon on saturn"—It is a hexagon twice as wide as Earth around Saturn's north pole. First observed by the Voyager 1 probe in the 1980s, the hexagon has been sighted still by the Cassini probe
As Cassini winds down its 20-year mission to Saturn, the spacecraft will maneuver into a series of weeklong orbits, allowing it to get a closer look at the planet's famous rings as it flies by.
Between 2012 and 2016, the persistent hexagonal cloud pattern at Saturn's north pole changed from a mostly blue color to more of a golden color. [121] One theory for this is a seasonal change: extended exposure to sunlight may be creating haze as the pole swivels toward the Sun. [ 121 ] It was previously noted that there was less blue color ...
British explorer Sir James Clark Ross discovered the magnetic north pole in 1831 in northern Canada, approximately 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) south of the true North Pole. We now know that ...
By: Troy Frisby/Patrick Jones, Buzz60 NASA's new pictures of Earth are reigniting conspiracy theories straight out of "Journey to the Center of the Earth."
Other astronomical bodies are also known to have polar vortices, including Venus (double vortex – that is, two polar vortices at a pole), [85] Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's moon Titan. Saturn's south pole is the only known hot polar vortex in the solar system. [86]