It all starts with a curiosity; the hexagon at the north pole of Saturn.

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It all starts with a curiosity; the hexagon at the north pole of Saturn.



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This other curious mystery and we have it close, Saturn has a perfect home hexagon at its North Pole, with six exactly equal sides of almost 15,000 km each, it is a vortex of clouds that move at about 500 km per hour.


This hexagon changes color even with the seasons, it changes color, from blue to gold, due to seasonal changes and sunlight, a phenomenon that the Cassini probe documented in 2012, the curious thing is that there is nothing like it on any other gaseous planet in the solar system, nor at the South Pole of Saturn.


The hexagon is thought to originate from a stable atmospheric Rossby wave (planetary waves), resulting in this six-sided figure. These waves are oscillations that take place in oceans and atmospheres. On Saturn, a Rossby wave occurs in an airflow and combines with a slower wind in the lower atmosphere, causing the hexagonal structure. The nonexistence of a similar phenomenon at the planet's south pole is another mystery that continues to be investigated.




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