Cassini has obtained its highest resolution images yet of Saturn’s hexagon-shaped jet stream.
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Cassini has obtained its highest resolution images yet of Saturn’s weird hexagon-shaped jet stream.
They’ve even turned it into a movie!
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Cassini has obtained its highest resolution images yet of Saturn’s weird hexagon-shaped jet stream.
They’ve even turned it into a movie!
If you have a decent graphics card try downloading the animated 23 meg GIF. It’s mesmerizing. The motion of the various atmospheric elements relative to one another other is bizarre! http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA17652_bw.gif
I wonder what that would look like in 3d, the fluid mechanics and gravity are probably not easy to duplicate with so many unknowns.