Saturn's North Polar Hexagon
Extending to 70 degrees north latitude, the false-color video frame is map-projected, based on infrared, visible, and ultraviolet image data recorded by the Saturn-orbiting spacecraft in late 2012. First found in the outbound Voyager flyby images from the 1980s, the bizarre, long-lived feature tied to the planet's rotation is about 30,000 kilometers across.
At its center lies the ringed gas giant's hurricane-like north polar storm. A new long term study of Cassini data has found a remarkable higher-altitude vortex, exactly matching the outlines of the north polar hexagon, that formed as summer approached the planet's northern hemisphere. It appears to reach hundreds of kilometers above these deeper cloud tops, into Saturn's stratosphere.
Info via APOD
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
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One can see that jewellry and adornments are often just replicating the natural beauty or being an example of such in the world, Amazing, thanks. my lady Corina,
ReplyDeleteMany objects, existing in nature, take the shape of a hexagon. With angle of 60° in corners. This is due to the optimal energy distribution, when the system strives for balance.
ReplyDeleteIn example the basalt columns have a similar shape when it cools down and stresses arise, making it cracked. Such shape is assumed by carbon atoms in cyclic organic compounds (like benzene). And bees do not build hexagonal cells at all. They build oval cells. But the distribution of forces makes them hexagonal.
Maybe a monument to the Supreme Beeing (sic) :)
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