Guest chax Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 (edited) http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/saturn-hexagon/ Quote 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. Reveal hidden contents and here i thought neptune was always the most IDM planet...hmmm bonus photos of saturn Edited December 10, 2009 by chax Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
karmakramer Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 WOOOOOAAAAHHHHH *jaw drops* Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chaosmachine Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/and-saturns-hexagon-shall-be-called/ Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide all signatures WATMM Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chax Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 On 12/10/2009 at 8:17 AM, chaosmachine said: http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/and-saturns-hexagon-shall-be-called/ very very interesting...i like the name Omphalos Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184536 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Glass Plate Posted December 10, 2009 Report 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. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chax Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 On 12/10/2009 at 8:27 AM, Glass Plate said: 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 Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Glass Plate Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 On 12/10/2009 at 8:28 AM, chax said: On 12/10/2009 at 8:27 AM, Glass Plate said: 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. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lumpenprol Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 plz forward to Boc for next album cover Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide lumpenprol's signature Hide all signatures After this I listened to geogaddi and I didn't like it, I was quite vomitting at some tracks, I realized they were too crazy for my ears, they took too much acid to play music I stupidly thought (cliché of psyché music) But I knew this album was a kind of big forest where I just wasn't able to go inside. - lost cloud I was in US tjis summer, and eat in KFC. FUCK That's the worst thing i've ever eaten. The flesh simply doesn't cleave to the bones. Battery ferming. And then, foie gras is banned from NY state, because it's considered as ill-treat. IT'S NOT. KFC is tourist ill-treat. YOU POISONERS! Two hours after being to KFC, i stopped in a amsih little town barf all that KFC shit out. Nice work! So i hope this woman is not like kfc chicken, otherwise she'll be pulled to pieces. -organized confused project Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184545 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAXIMUS MISCHIEF Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 jazz Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide MAXIMUS MISCHIEF's signature Hide all signatures official sup barnstar of coolness Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184547 Share on other sites More sharing options...
essines Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 On 12/10/2009 at 8:27 AM, Glass Plate said: 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. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide essines's signature Hide all signatures On 8/19/2011 at 11:51 PM, Luke Fucking Hazard said: Essines has, and always will remind me of MacReady. Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184550 Share on other sites More sharing options...
takeshi Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 boc? Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide takeshi's signature Hide all signatures Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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chaosmachine Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 On 12/10/2009 at 8:56 AM, chax said: seems like a good enough reason to blow up the moon. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide all signatures WATMM Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beholdapalehorse Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Most definitely on the m-i-c. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 looks like a bumhole Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide keltoi's signature Hide all signatures Reveal hidden contents Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 (edited) 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. Edited December 10, 2009 by mafted Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184709 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 that would be http://ciclops.org Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ezkerraldean Posted December 10, 2009 Report 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. Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184722 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokoon Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 On 12/10/2009 at 3:36 PM, ezkerraldean said: 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. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184736 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mafted Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 On 12/10/2009 at 3:36 PM, ezkerraldean said: and that's why space exploration is a good use of money! haha.. agreed! Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 It's sad that BoC have to stare at their home planet and not be able to return... yet. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide all signatures Follow WATMM on Twitter: @WATMMOfficial Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
azatoth Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Iapetus is the Death Star Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide azatoth's signature Hide all signatures last.fm the biggest illusion is yourself Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 On 12/10/2009 at 4:00 PM, kokoon said: On 12/10/2009 at 3:36 PM, ezkerraldean said: 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! Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Hide kaini's signature Hide all signatures On 5/7/2013 at 11:06 PM, ambermonk said: I know IDM can be extreme On 6/3/2017 at 11:50 PM, ladalaika said: this sounds like an airplane landing on a minefield Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184977 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokoon Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 but it is. i mean, it's a natural satellite. Thanks Haha Confused Sad Facepalm Burger Farnsworth Big Brain Like × Quote Link to comment https://forum.watmm.com/topic/51397-saturn%E2%80%99s-hexagon/#findComment-1184979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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