NASA: Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission. [Click on photo to see it in motion.]
NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has appeared in Cassini images indicates that it is a long-lived feature. A second hexagon, significantly darker than the brighter historical feature, is also visible in the Cassini pictures. The spacecraft's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer is the first instrument to capture the entire hexagon feature in one image. …
I'll have to admit, a hexagon on Saturn is pretty cool. However, I am waiting for them to go to the moon and find this:
(Update: Okay. Some of you have a serious deficit in your SciFi cultural education and don't get the second picture. It is the monolith from Space Odyssey 2001 that indicates a higher intelligent life form is behind our human existence. My, my. What are they teaching in schools these days?)
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