• Saturn has two hexagons, not one, swirling around its north pole
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/saturn-has-two-hexagons-not-one-swirling-around-its-north-pole
Is that naturally occurring or are there space geometry nerds
aliens
Bad texturing in the simulation. It'll get patched out when the devs can get off their arses.
Seems like someone didnt expect us to get out of bounds.
lod culling broke, happens all the time
System struggling to register all ring and moon models, reduce Polydeuces for better performance.
Hexagons? On MY Saturn?
Watch you fuckers are making jokes, but we gonna find something that's gonna shake us to the core. Never trust a hexagon, evil shape, just like rectangles.
does anyone have nasas phone number this is mine and i need it back soon
Ah yes, the crux of the "demons from Saturn" conspiracy
Impossible! Everyone knows Saturn uses quadrilaterals as its primitives.
That magnetic field must be absolutely nuts, what the hell
Hexagonal vortices are unusual but they've been reproduced in lab conditions on Earth. Gas/fluid dynamics can do weird shit.
what happens if there is 6????
It is so cool that we keep getting new and exciting images from space.
Thats fucking shapist you piece of shit I for one welcome our new hexagon overlords
The Antarctic jet stream occasionally forms a rough hexagon here on earth as well.
What am I staring at
A impressionist painting colour enhanced picture of clouds on Jupiter, taken by the Juno probe.
A storm several times the size of earth
I love Van Gogh!
looks like n64 circles
This is all due to atmospheric currents; no magnetic field necessary.
The moment we get closer, it will look much smoother
They specifically point out the role that magnetic fields play in forming atmospheric currents though. This is especially apparently when you look at the asymmetry of the two poles on the planet - Jupiter has something similar and it's caused by its also bizarre unequal magnetic field.
Well, nevermind then
Saturn has two hexagons and we don't even have one? There has literally never been more hexagon inequality in our solar system. Bernie Stardust 2020
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