The most mysterious planet of the solar system is considered to be Saturn. Its rings and 64 moons possess truly strange properties. So, the “prankster” Enceladus melts and showers Elena with splashes, removing at the same time sounds like on guitar strings. Titan is buried in the “seas of tears “- a system of underground oceans and salt lakes. But the most wonderful a surprise was a six-sided storm at the north pole of the planet. Remember the school riddle, why does a snowflake have a hexagonal shape? Now scientists are asking the same question, studying the “snowflake” on the “cap” of Saturn. 
Photos from open Sources – The hexagon is similar to the Earth’s polar vortices, but on For some reason they have the right shape for Saturn. This is very strange formation, it has an exact geometric structure and six almost equal sides, ”Kevin Baines expressed surprise, representative of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, state California. 
Photos from open sources TWO EARTH Hexagon the appearance due to jet vortices that go to 60 kilometers deep into the atmosphere and are composed of gas clouds. They are hold the perimeter of the storm and form an area that rotates around the planet’s north pole at a latitude of about 77 degrees. The diameter of the hexagon from vortex flows is about 30 thousand kilometers, each side – 14,500 kilometers. In it, for good saying, two such planets as the Earth could fit. Traffic waves equals approximately 322 kilometers per hour. In the center – funnel. This phenomenon is no longer anywhere in the solar system. It is noteworthy that at the south pole of Saturn the correct no hexagons: polar vortices there are ordinary spiral circles, in the photographs they resemble earthly giant tornado. 
Photos from open sources The diameter of the hexagon is about 30 thousand km. Photo: Global Look Press STORM 666 Amazing the phenomenon has been known since the Voyager-1 mission, when in 1980 year, the device flew past Saturn, but the study was difficult, because it was in the shade because of the polar night, because the year on Saturn is about 29.5 Earth years. The change of seasons occurred in 2012, and Cassini took a series of high-resolution shots that along with new photos allowed to trace the dynamics ongoing processes. It turned out that the hexagonal cumulative the jet acts as a barrier within which small whirlwinds. – The hexagon is a stream of air. On Earth, a hurricane can last a week but on Saturn it lasts for decades and maybe even centuries, – said Andrew Ingersoll, who processes Cassini data at California Technology Institute. – On Earth, atmospheric vortices slow down due to heterogeneity of the relief of the planet’s surface, while Saturn’s circularly structured atmosphere – the surface is smooth, and the storm does not dissipate. Saturn will come to Saturn in 2017 solstice. As you approach this date, more will appear. opportunities to study an unusual phenomenon. Scientists still It is not known what is under the gas shell of the giant. 
Photos from open sources. Waves move at a speed of about 322 kilometers per hour. Photo: NASA CONSTANT Scientists from Oxford University were able in the laboratory simulate the occurrence of a hexagon. To find out how there is such a formation, the researchers put on a spinning table 30 liter water bottle. He simulated the atmosphere of Saturn and its usual rotation. Inside the scientists put small rings, rotating faster than capacity. It generated miniature vortices and jets that experimenters visualized with green paints. The faster the ring rotated, the more the vortices became, causing a nearby stream to deviate from a circular shape. So In this way, the authors of the experiment managed to get various figures – ovals, triangles, squares and, of course, the desired hexagon. Scientists compared the data of experience with what is happening on Saturn and put forward the assumption that in its high northern latitudes separate jet flows are accelerated just to the speed at which something like a steady wave is being formed – a planetary hex. AND although the “investigation” does not reveal the origin of such movements, it shows why the whole system is so beautiful and long-lasting. CASSINI Cassini was launched in 1997 and got to Saturn July 1, 2004. His mission is designed until 2017, she is a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. Based The transferred information was compiled about 3000 reports and many discoveries made, reminiscent of the Independent Portal astronautics. Among his successes include landing on Titan Huygens probe, Enceladus satellite probe, tracking the process of forming a new satellite and exploring lakes and the underground oceans on Titan, the discovery of seven previously unknown Saturn’s moons. NASA’s Cassini space probe succeeded take a picture of a unique phenomenon on Saturn – hexagon vortex. This has not yet happened in the solar system. Cassini filmed a storm of 10 hours. On Saturn, the storm season is again. But for the first time astrophysicists were able to consider the elements in detail. 
Photo from open sources Photo taken with a Cassini probe with Saturn’s orbits on April 2, 2014. Photo: NASA
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