The Cassini spacecraft took this recent snapshot in infrared light.
Image Credit: NASA
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The Cassini spacecraft took this recent snapshot in infrared light.
Image Credit: NASA
Strangely “hexagonal boundary around the pole. Is it a photographic/data-processing artefact, I wonder?
Nope. It’s a storm.
Isn’t it somewhat fractal in nature?
I remember when the hexagonal pole storm was first spotted, and the scramble to find an explanation.
And here’s a page with a false color animation:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/04/cassini-photo-stunning-new-views-of-saturns-hexagon-storm/
Or here:
Remember seeing an explanation on how the hexagon likely developed on some space show. Found a blog post that has similar info and videos of lab experiments that replicate the effect:
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2010/2471.html
Thanks for the link, I particularly liked the different waveforms demonstrated in the lab results.
I’d dearly love to see the triangular waveform on a planetary scale!
They saw something very similar in the Hi res doppler on wheels shots of the May F5 Moore, Oklahoma tornado .