Bizarre Giant Hexagon Spotted Over Saturn's North Pole


	Bizarre Giant Hexagon Spotted Over Saturn's North Pole

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3-29-2007 5:20 AM

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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/f3c2111f-ac97-4700-bad0-ed626e418ee6/C7002A25-3D2A-473B-B506-DD16E50ADC3C/" 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.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262084,00.html" href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262084,00.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.foxnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262084,00.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.foxnews.com/img/E0CF16CB-3508-49D7-A563-87696E1633B2" alt="" /></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.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262084,00.html">One of the most bizarre weather patterns known has been photographed at Saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided feature circling the north pole.</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.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262084,00.html"><P><FONT face="Arial" nd="1">nstead of the normally sinuous or circular cloud structures seen on all planets that have atmospheres, this thing is a</FONT> <A href="javascript:siteSearch('hexagon');"><B>hexagon</B></A><FONT face="Arial" nd="2">.</FONT></p> <P><FONT face="Arial" nd="3">The honeycomb-like feature has been seen before. NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged it more than two decades ago. Now, having spotted it with the</FONT> <A href="javascript:siteSearch('Cassini spacecraft');"><B>Cassini spacecraft</B></A><FONT face="Arial" nd="4">, scientists conclude it is a long-lasting oddity.</FONT></P></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.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262084,00.html"><FONT face="Arial" nd="5">"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</FONT> <A href="javascript:siteSearch('Jet Propulsion Laboratory');"><B>Jet Propulsion Laboratory</B></A> <FONT face="Arial" nd="6">in Pasadena, Calif.</FONT></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.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,262084,00.html"><P><FONT face="Arial" nd="8">The hexagon is nearly 15,000 miles (25,000 kilometers) across. Nearly four Earths could fit inside it.</FONT></p> <P><FONT face="Arial" nd="9">Thermal imagery shows the hexagon extends about 60 miles (100 kilometers) down into the clouds.</FONT></P></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;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C7002A25-3D2A-473B-B506-DD16E50ADC3C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.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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