Gigantic Hexagon discovered on Saturn

[musictomyears]

"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."

Bizarre Hexagon Spotted on Saturn

 

[Aaron LeClair]

Yeah, Hoagland is spinning this thing a bit at his site. He briefed the UN 15 years ago on it yada yada. Stay tuned for his paper. He has the answers NASA doesn't as usual.

 

[Rick Deckard]

"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."

Bizarre Hexagon Spotted on Saturn

That is weird - looks to me like the 'hexagon' is a solid object with an atmosphere floating above it...

Yeah, Hoagland is spinning this thing a bit at his site. He briefed the UN 15 years ago on it yada yada. Stay tuned for his paper. He has the answers NASA doesn't as usual.

I don't believe NASA would tell us if they found evidence of ETI.

 

[DBTrek]

Wow . . . that's really strange. I wonder what causes that to happen. How will we test a phenomena that is several times larger than our own planet?

-DBTrek