🪐 Saturn’s Hexagon: A Giant Storm With Six Sides

Описание: Saturn is famous for its rings, but its north pole hides an even stranger feature: a giant hexagonal storm spanning over 20,000 miles across, wider than Earth itself. First discovered by the Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s and later studied in detail by Cassini, this six-sided cloud pattern rotates with incredible stability, with winds reaching 200 mph. Scientists are still trying to understand why it forms a perfect hexagon instead of the circular shape typical of planetary storms. Some theories suggest it results from complex fluid dynamics in Saturn’s atmosphere, but no simulation has perfectly replicated it yet. The hexagon is a reminder that even in our own solar system, nature can create shapes and phenomena that seem almost artificial.