Norman Albers Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 In the NY Times yesterday or so was a great picture of a large hexagonal cloud structure about one of the poles, having a scale of 15,000 km. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Albers Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 Sorry, 15,000 miles or 25,000 km. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyman Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 The hexagon appears to have remained fixed with Saturn's rotation rate and axis since first glimpsed by Voyager 26 years ago. The actual rotation rate of Saturn is still uncertain. http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=735 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Albers Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share Posted March 30, 2007 It is beautiful and strange to see such a straight structure coming from a fluid medium. A friend (WBW) responded saying oh that's minimum packing, but these are large fluid forms presumably from vortexes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Tycho?] Posted March 30, 2007 Share Posted March 30, 2007 Yeah its pretty strange to look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Albers Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share Posted March 31, 2007 I want to know when form emerges from chaos. Do you know how we got the word 'chaos'? The Greeks, who had a story for everything, included the god of KAOS, which is so obviously part of life, like, what happens after you make plans. At the very least, this would help my personal feng sui. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Albers Posted April 1, 2007 Author Share Posted April 1, 2007 My brother, Steve, who works at NOAA modelling mesoscale weather, twisters in the US Midwest, offers this: N'wa, Yes, this is an improved image of the feature that was discovered by Voyager circa 1980. Looks mystical, though it is likely a six wave pattern at high latitudes where the curvatures involved cancel out into a near hexagon... S'crunch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnB Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 Would it be churlish to point out that the hexagonal pattern was predicted before the Voyager mission and was therefore no surprise to some people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Albers Posted April 2, 2007 Author Share Posted April 2, 2007 JohnB, I simply am impressed, both by what I'm seeing and by people who predicted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnB Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 Mate, it is impressive. I've seen some time lapse footage from the Voyager missions and you can actually see the clouds turn the corners as they go around this thing. It would have to be one of the strangest and most magnificent sights I've seen in this system of ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Albers Posted April 3, 2007 Author Share Posted April 3, 2007 Way cool, JohnB. I'd like to see this. I have not seen hexagons in the sky since last I ate psychedelics. BECAUSE THE SKY IS BLUE, IT TURNS ME ON! False color, magenta, whatever. Hoist up yer sails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Albers Posted April 8, 2007 Author Share Posted April 8, 2007 My brother reports this study: http://www.physorg.com/news66924222.html . We're on our way again to the coffee cup with <m=13>. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Albers Posted April 11, 2007 Author Share Posted April 11, 2007 I will explain this reference and wish someone knew how to put in the picture of water in a rotating pan of some sort manifesting different polygonal shapes at different speeds of a lower plate (with fixed walls). "Hoist up the JohnB sails; see how the mainsail sets..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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