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. NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 ...
Earlier in 2013, NASA's Cassini orbiter captured a stunning photo of a mysterious storm on Saturn. Until now, we've known very little about the storm, other than it's been stuck to Saturn's north pole ...
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Even if it cant support life, these obtuse angles are reason enough to call Saturn an enemy planet. *puts pentagon shaped tin hat on.* I once ran into a crackpot who claimed the hexagon on Saturn was ...
Despite more than a decade of winter darkness, Saturn’s north pole is home to an unexpected hot spot remarkably similar to one at the planet’s sunny south pole. The source of its heat is a mystery.
This raw image shows Saturn's north polar region (left half) and part of its north polar hexagon. At right, we see the rings stacked up in the distance. The photo was taken captured by NASA's Cassini ...
The Cassini space probe mission is coming to an end this month when the probe makes its final destructive plunge in to Saturn. It's spent the past thirteen years studying the planet, its rings and ...
"As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary, ...
A study of Saturn's atmospheric structure using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed complex and mysterious features unseen before on any planet in our Solar System. A study of ...
NASA's Cassini spacecraft ended its sojourn at Saturn on Sept. 15, with a plunge in the atmosphere of the ringed planet. The mission began in 1997 when Cassini was launched on a trip to Saturn to look ...