Giant Hexagon on Saturn's North Pole

in #astronomy8 years ago (edited)

In 2007 NASA's Cassini spacecraft first noticed a large rotating hexagon circling the entire north pole of Saturn. I'm not kidding, it's true see it on NASA's website here https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20070327.html

Image of Giant Hexagon on Saturn's North Pole

Furthermore, NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts imaged the feature 35-36 years ago during their flybys of the planet in 1980 and 1981 respectively and yet I have always found it fascinating that NASA and others virtually never highlight this, hardly ever talk about it. You would think this would be one of the most interesting things about Saturn after it's gorgeous rings.

According to their website the hexagon is similar to Earth's polar vortex, which has winds blowing in a circular pattern around the polar region. On Saturn, the vortex has a hexagonal rather than circular shape. It's a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides. The hexagon is nearly 25,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) across and 100 kilometers (60 miles) thick and can fit nearly four Earths inside it.

Some people say that inside the hexagon there's a three-sided pyramid shape that appears quite clearly as a lighter-shade triangle set against the background of the hexagon. Just imagine a pyramid placed on top of the hexagon and you'll see it. Inside the pyramid is the shape of the all-seeing eye. You can clearly see it in the center of the pyramid shape. In it, you can just barely make out the shape of an inverted pyramid, plus two concentric circles in the center.

Image of Giant Hexagon on Saturn's North Pole overlayed with lines showing the structure of the pyramid, plus the all-seeing eye

Take a look at the back of US a dollar bill and you will see an all-seeing eye, centered inside the top of the pyramid, looking over you. It's the same image.

So this is like wow! It could be for real as a natural phenomenon or designed by some alien or one of NASA's fake images. But it surely isn't conspiracy theory if it's on NASA's website as fact! Well whatever, this is cool!

Image of Giant Hexagon on Saturn's North Pole

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