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==Hexagon Storm== Excerpt from the the subsection titled "Saturn" on p. 1049 of [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019Sci...364.1046S/abstract L. Spilker (2019)]: <table border="0" align="center" width="90%"><tr><td align="left"> <font color="green"> Saturn's alternating eastward and westward jet streams define the bands of cloud that circle the planet … One of the jet streams near 75° north latitude, forms a hexagonal pattern that is two Earth diameters across … [https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/voyager/hexagon_PIA_11682.html Voyager] first discovered the hexagon, and it is still there after 35 years … this hexagonal-shaped jet stream … is remarkable for its stability and longevity; its source remains a mystery. </font> See also: * [https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009P%26SS...57.1671B/abstract K. H. Baines et al. (2009)], Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 57, Issue 14-15, p. 1671: ''Saturn's north polar cyclone and hexagon at depth revealed by Cassini/VIMS'' </td></tr></table> <table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="5"> <tr> <th align="center">FIGURE 1</th> <th align="center">FIGURE 2</th> </tr> <tr> <td align="center"> [[File:Pia18274 full.jpg|400px|Casini image]] </td> <td align="center"> [[File:PIA17652-1024x768.png|492px|Image of Saturn's Hexagon Storm]] </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" colspan="2"> '''FIGURE 1:''' obtained from [https://www.nasa.gov/jpl/cassini/pia18274 this NASA Newsletter]; '''FIGURE 2:''' obtained from [https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA17652 this NASA/JPL site]. <br />See also the Wikipedia page titled, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn's_hexagon ''Saturn's hexagon''] or a focused subsection of the page titled, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn#North_pole_hexagonal_cloud_pattern ''Saturn'']. </td> </tr> </table>
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