Related: A view of the layers in Saturn's Hexagon. (Image credit: UPV/EHU) In 2015, Cassini's main camera snapped high-resolution images of Saturn that revealed the hazes above the clouds in the ...

A view of the layers in Saturn's Hexagon. (Image credit: UPV/EHU) In 2015, Cassini's main camera snapped high-resolution images of Saturn that revealed the hazes above the clouds in the hexagon.

Saturn also boasts a six-sided feature at its north pole, which scientists first noticed when NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Saturn in 1981. Saturn's hexagon is mesmerizing but also odd: the ...

Saturn also boasts a six-sided feature at its north pole, which scientists first noticed when NASA 's Voyager 2 spacecraft visited Saturn in 1981. Saturn's hexagon is mesmerizing but also odd: the ...

The hexagon is similar to Earth’s polar vortex, which has winds blowing in a circular pattern around the polar region. On Saturn, the vortex has a hexagonal rather than circular shape.

The last visible-light images of the entire hexagon were captured by NASA’s Voyager spacecraft nearly 30 years ago, the last time spring began on Saturn. After the sunlight faded, darkness ...

Humanity has known of Saturn since prehistory, but enigmas about this ringed world still abound — from new mysteries concerning a baffling hexagon of clouds on the planet to perennial puzzles ...

Ars Praefectus 9y 3,294 Subscriptor Jun 8, 2020 #5 I once ran into a crackpot who claimed the hexagon on Saturn was proof that all modern science was wrong and there was a conspiracy to suppress ...

Early hexagon images from Voyager and ground-based telescopes suffered from poor viewing perspectives. Cassini, which has been orbiting Saturn since 2004, has a better angle for viewing the north ...

Interest in Saturn’s hexagon storm goes back to 1988, when astronomer David A. Godfrey analyzed flyby data from the Voyager spacecraft’s 1980 and 1981 Saturn passes and reported the discovery.

As Saturn approaches its summer solstice in 2017, NASA should be able to get some even better imagery of the hexagon. Now read: The other blue planet: What Mars might’ve looked like, billions of ...