Saturn Hexagon Thingie

[Celephais]

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034
very cool...
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/pia09187-200.gifhttp://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/pia09186-200.jpg

[Drew]

Saw this the other day, extremely weird.

[Celephais]

Saw this the other day, extremely weird.

Apparently centrifugal forces at the extreme produce neat polygon shapes...
http://skirmisher.org/the-universe/saturns-mysterious-hexagon-is-breeding-a-fresh-batch-of-alien-loving-loonies-as-we-speak/

What with Saturn as big as it is spinning fully in 10.5 hours, that makes sense.

[Gan]

Wicked cool.

And damn, thats some fast rotation for that amount of mass.