https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-after-effects-of-the-giant-storm-on-saturn/ Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:39:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-after-effects-of-the-giant-storm-on-saturn/#comment-68104 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:39:33 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=20434#comment-68104 It’s just amazing to me that even after decades of some pretty detailed observations of the outer planets (both from Hubble & other space telescopes & spacecraft flybys), we still continue to discover just amazing & sometimes baffling things, like the huge rotating near-perfect Hexagon structure at Saturn’s North pole, and the persistent huge hurricane-like structure with an almost human-looking “eye” at its South ploe. That is the really neat thing about Science – it never stays static, old rules seem destined to be replaced by new ones (Newton vs. Relativity vs. Quantum Mechanics), and Physicists scramble to explain the latest, completely unexpected findings. As Spock would say “Fascinating!”

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