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Saturn's Northern Hexagon

Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, JPL, SSI, Cassini Imaging Team

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Saturn's north pole is shown with vibrant false colors. The outer boundary appears as a rounded hexagon.

APOD: 2023 June 18 – Saturns Northern Hexagon

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If sci-fi has taught me anything, there's an artifact at the center of that storm.
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The thing that buggers me is that probably this is the largest hexagon in the Solar System and that we can't do anything to subvert its supremacy, while this does not apply for other polygons like pentagons and heptagons. This is so insulting!

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