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Saturn's mysteries
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fb829961-bfd5-472b-bafc-aef52a81ed61/534813BE-BD73-46D5-9990-87CF5D53E667/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-08-27-saturn-mysteries_N.htm" href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-08-27-saturn-mysteries_N.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.usatoday.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-08-27-saturn-mysteries_N.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.usatoday.com/img/D9ACEC44-1B6E-44E5-B471-0743D22261C8" alt="Nothing like the hexagon on Saturn has ever been seen at any other planet, with each of its sides nearly 7,500 miles (12,500 kilometers) across-big enough to fit nearly four Earths inside." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-08-27-saturn-mysteries_N.htm"><SPAN class="sidebar">Nothing like the hexagon on Saturn has ever been seen at any other planet, with each of its sides nearly 7,500 miles (12,500 kilometers) across-big enough to fit nearly four Earths inside.</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-08-27-saturn-mysteries_N.htm">The latest mystery is the giant hexagon circling Saturn's north pole. Scientists caught glimpses of it decades ago from the Voyager mission, but confirmed its existence with the Cassini spacecraft.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-08-27-saturn-mysteries_N.htm">Thermal images show it reaches roughly 60 miles (100 kilometers) down into the planet's atmosphere. "It's a very bizarre object," </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-08-27-saturn-mysteries_N.htm">Perhaps a giant spinning cylinder of gas stretching thousands of kilometers into Saturn lies at the hexagon's center, and the hexagon's cloudy walls emerged from interactions with slower-spinning gas at the cylinder's edges that did not spin as fast, Baines said. Or perhaps the hexagon arises from a complex interaction between waves undulating through the atmosphere and gas churning up it.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2007-08-27-saturn-mysteries_N.htm">Hopefully we'll learn more about the hexagon when the seasons on Saturn change</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/534813BE-BD73-46D5-9990-87CF5D53E667/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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