NASA scientists are baffled by an unusual hexagon structure on Saturn, first spotted in the 1980s, that has been there ever ...

Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission. NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 ...

The Cassini mission, jointly operated by NASA and the European Space Agency, came to end in 2017 after the spacecraft deliberately plunged into Saturn with its fuel supplies rapidly diminishing.

The model simulates a shell spanning the outermost 10 percent of Saturn’s radius. It’s pretty computationally intensive to run Even if it cant support life, these obtuse angles are reason enough to ...

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"As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary, ...