In an astonishing development, NASA scientists [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia09188.html announced] on March 27, 2007, that the Cassini spacecraft has observed a "bizarre six-sided feature encircling the north pole of Saturn... Originally discovered and last observed by a spacecraft during NASA's Voyager flybys of the early 1980's, the new views of this polar hexagon taken in late 2006 prove that this is an unusually long-lived feature on Saturn." | In an astonishing development, NASA scientists [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia09188.html announced] on March 27, 2007, that the Cassini spacecraft has observed a "bizarre six-sided feature encircling the north pole of Saturn... Originally discovered and last observed by a spacecraft during NASA's Voyager flybys of the early 1980's, the new views of this polar hexagon taken in late 2006 prove that this is an unusually long-lived feature on Saturn." |