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NASA – Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn


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.

NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has appeared in Cassini images indicates that it is a long-lived feature. A second hexagon, significantly darker than the brighter historical feature, is also visible in the Cassini pictures. The spacecraft’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer is the first instrument to capture the entire hexagon feature in one image.

via NASA – Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn.

 

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I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.
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2 responses to “NASA – Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn”

  1. Illuminate by Tanya Avatar
    Illuminate by Tanya

    That is really weird! I can’t imagine what would cause that!

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    1. Keith Wayne Brown Avatar
      Keith Wayne Brown

      I know. Very strange. First time I’ve heard of it although they said that both Voyager 1 and 2 had seen it.

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