A view of the layers in Saturn's Hexagon. (Image credit: UPV/EHU) In 2015, Cassini's main camera snapped high-resolution images of Saturn that revealed the hazes above the clouds in the hexagon.

Saturn reached its northern solstice, or the longest day of the planet's "summer" season, on May 24, 2017 — shortly after Cassini snapped the latter set of photos on April 25, 2017.

Saturn's Bizarre Hexagon Vortex Just Got Even Weirder. Published Sep 04, 2018 at 11:30 AM EDT Updated Sep 04, 2018 at 6:29 PM EDT. By . Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the ...

A hexagon in Saturn’s northern stratosphere surrounding the emerging summertime polar vortex. Nature Communications , 2018; 9 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06017-3 Cite This Page : ...

A bizarre, hexagon-shaped vortex has formed above Saturn's north pole as the planet's northern hemisphere enters summer, data from the international Cassini-Huygens mission revealed. The unusual ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The weird hexagon swirling around Saturn's north pole is much taller than scientists had ...

Saturn's mysterious hexagon emerges from winter darkness. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 3, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 12 / 091209151244.htm. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Saturn sure has a thing for peculiar shapes! Astronomers have known for some time that Saturn’s north pole has developed a very odd hexagonal shape. … ...

Discovered by NASA’s Voyager mission in 1981, Saturn’s hexagon is striking to behold, and one new study suggests that this six-sided vortex may actually be hundreds of kilometers tall.

NASA believes the hexagon's stability is due to Saturn being made up of a smooth ball of gas. Earth, on the other hand, has uneven solid landforms, like mountains and icecaps, which tend to ...

The twin Voyager spacecraft first observed Saturn’s north polar hexagon in 1980 and 1981. This highly geometric feature in Saturn’s atmosphere has had significant speculation about its origin ...