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Originally posted by yuefo
This is the weirdest thing I've seen since the ring around Iapetus. What could it be?
Originally posted by IAttackPeople
The Sun?
Or check this out... Warning! Science Content
Originally posted by disownedsky
[ah, and then I see from the above post that the "mystery" is solved.]
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 (VIMS) team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. "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.
This nighttime view of Saturn's north pole by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer onboard NASA's Cassini orbiter clearly shows a bizarre six-sided hexagon feature encircling the entire north pole. This is one of the first clear images taken of the north polar region ever acquired from a unique polar perspective. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Originally posted by yuefo
But not this mystery. With uncharacteristic candor, NASA admits to being clueless:
Originally posted by greatlakes
Yeah my opinion of Richard C Hoagland went up after seeing this confirmation awhile back of his hyperdimensional model theory.