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REAL LIFE NEWS: STRANGE SHAPE AT SATURN'S POLE

by Hazed

The Cassini spacecraft has snapped a very odd picture of Saturn. It shows a six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the north pole of the planet, which is intriguing scientists with the NASA mission.

Actually, the pictures of the hexagon were not a huge surprise – the same feature showed up in images taken by Voyager 1 and 2 over twenty years ago, but the fact that it's still there to be seen by Cassini shows that it is a long-lived phenomenon.

For more info and to see a picture of the odd hexagon, go to the NASA web site.

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