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For me this one from the Saturn's north pole is more amazing: https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/saturn/hexagon-in-motion/ https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science
by acqq 10y ago
For me this one from the Saturn's north pole is more amazing:
https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/saturn/hexagon-in-motion/ https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/science/saturn/hexagon-in-motion...
Nobody could have expected a hexagon made from the clouds there, each side longer than the diameter of the Earth.
It even changes its color:
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21049/changing-colors-in-saturns-north https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21049/changing-col...
And regarding the darkness, consider that the humanity in around 100 years used up what is estimated as the half of all the oil reserves on Earth that needed many millions of years to form.
- aruggirello 10y agoIt would be really cool to see what's the weather like on Uranus or Neptune, too - especially around the poles. Voyager pictures only provide a limited view. > And regarding the darkness, consider that the humanity in around 100 years used up what is estimated as the half of all the oil reserves on Earth that needed many millions of years to form. Not only that but coal, copper, iron, gold, uranium, rare earths, methane and helium are also nearly half depleted, or will be in a few decades given current usage. Add the sad state of the environment to that, with ~75% of animal species gone extinct in the last century or two, agricultural depletion of the soil, increasing freshwater scarcity and climate change, and you have a perfect recipe for disaster.
- danaliv 10y agoHexagons are surprisingly common in nature! Honeycomb, columnar basalt, snowflakes, benzene, soap bubbles...