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	NASA finds something odd

Karmic Mishap

3-27-2007 11:51 PM

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Karmic Mishap says:

This is a very interesting article I StumbledUpon which describes a geometric figure in the storms of Saturn. How very strange!

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0718175c-a58b-4036-8a5c-0c670ac57efa/9E242D30-DF1F-4A76-9F47-BA55C0B8EAB2/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034" href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034" style="font-size: 11px;">www.jpl.nasa.gov</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034">An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling 
the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034"><DIV>
"This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with 
six nearly equally straight sides," said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and 
member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.  "We've never seen anything like 
this on any other planet.  Indeed, Saturn's thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped 
waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you'd expect to 
see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is." 
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.jpl.nasa.gov/img/7F886042-202F-49D9-8618-8805B03747FC" alt="six-sided feature circling Saturn's north pole" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.jpl.nasa.gov/img/A3451693-A776-437A-AB75-EA88E3330E5F" alt="Spinning Saturn" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.jpl.nasa.gov/img/8954E72E-C3E2-47F7-95EA-EB743F93C780" alt="six-sided feature circling Saturn's north pole" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034"><DIV>
"Once we understand its dynamical nature, this long-lived, deep-seated polar 
hexagon may give us a clue to the true rotation rate of the deep atmosphere and 
perhaps the interior," added Baines.   
</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034">scientists 
think it is not linked to Saturn's radio emissions or to auroral activity, as once 
contemplated</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-034"> 
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