terça-feira, 4 de setembro de 2018

O hexágono de Saturno (Cassini)

http://sci.esa.int/cassini-huygens/60589-saturn-s-famous-hexagon-may-tower-above-the-clouds

Foto:
http://sci.esa.int/cassini-huygens/60593-greyscale-cassini-views-of-saturn-famous-hexagon/

Citando:
"The long-lived international Cassini mission has revealed a surprising feature emerging at Saturn's northern pole as it nears summertime: a warming, high-altitude vortex with a hexagonal shape, akin to the famous hexagon seen deeper down in Saturn's clouds. This suggests that the lower-altitude hexagon may influence what happens up above, and that it could be a towering structure spanning hundreds of kilometres in height."

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