Extraterrestrial Hexagon- Scientists Are Baffled

NASA's orbiting Cassini spacecraft has photographed something unexplainable over the north pole of Saturn: a double hexagon formed in the clouds. No one knows what it is.

The two six-sided enigmas (one inside the other) are an unprecedented discovery. "We haven't seen a (geometric) feature like this anywhere else on any other planet," said Cassini scientist Kevin Baines of the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's unbelievable."

The Voyager 1 and 2 spacecrafts glimpsed one of the unexplained hexagons more than 20 years ago, but Cassini's infrared mapping instrument has provided the first whole, irrefutable images of the feature.

The Hexagon is about 15,000 miles wide. NASA speculates that the feature may be an unusually strong pole-encircling planetary “wave” that extends deep into the atmosphere. Oddly, other features move around the hexagon unaffected by the wave pattern (see video below). It appears to be in sync with the planet's 10-and-a-half-hour rotation. "It's perplexing," said Baines. "It's a bizarre pattern."

Cassini's images of Saturn's southern hemisphere verified that no such hexagon appears there. Instead there was a mega-hurricane-like vortex with a broad, deep eye over the South Pole, explained Cassini team member Bob Brown of the University of Arizona.

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