Thread: Hexagon on north pole of Saturn

There is a giant honeycomb hexagon on the north pole of saturn. I've seen some fluidics research on how this could form. But the images are amazing.

Sorry, but I couldn't resist supplying an image.

JPL.NASA.GOV: News Releases

It's their version of our pentagon. Damn those sneaky Saturnions!

Hey I've seen that same shape in a flower's face.

And there is a mysterious giant storm on the other pole:

(Spectacular storm rages on Saturn's south pole - cassini-huygens - 09 November 2006 - New Scientist Space)
A hurricane-like storm two-thirds as wide as the Earth is raging on Saturn's south pole, new images from the Cassini spacecraft reveal. Such clear hurricane-like features have never before been seen on any other planet, but scientists are not sure what is causing them.
The dark eye of the "hurricane" spans about 8000 kilometres and is surrounded by rings of clouds that tower about 30 to 75 kilometres above it. Watch a 0.6 mB video of Saturn's storm taken over a period of three hours.
These eye-wall clouds have never been seen anywhere other than on Earth, where they form in a process of convection when moist air flows across an ocean and rises. They drop rain in a ring around a region of falling air, which is the eye of a hurricane.
But Saturn's storm also differs from hurricanes on Earth because it is fixed in place – above the south pole – and is not powered by an ocean, since Saturn is a gaseous planet.
"It looks like a hurricane, but it doesn't behave like a hurricane," says Andrew Ingersoll, a member of Cassini's imaging team at Caltech in Pasadena, US. "Whatever it is, we're going to focus on the eye of the storm and find out why it's there."
It is unclear how long the storm has been there because Cassini has never before seen the pole at such a high resolution. And scientists are still puzzling over how it formed.


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very strange planet

Originally Posted by Merantes

There is a giant honeycomb hexagon on the north pole of saturn. I've seen some fluidics research on how this could form. But the images are amazing.

Sorry, but I couldn't resist supplying an image.

JPL.NASA.GOV: News Releases

So, E.E. "Doc" Smith was right!! There ARE inhabitants of Saturn - he even suggested that they built and rode in hexagon shaped craft!!

Fibronaci!! It rules the universe. One could say it is proof of God (though only subjectively).

Originally Posted by jojo

Fibronaci!! It rules the universe. One could say it is proof of God (though only subjectively).

how do you get fibbonaci?

Originally Posted by The_Bear

how do you get fibbonaci?

It was termed a Honeycomb in the OP -

Honeybees and Family trees


There are over 30,000 species of bees and in most of them the bees live solitary lives. The one most of us know best is the honeybee and it, unusually, lives in a colony called a hive and they have an unusual Family Tree. In fact, there are many unusual features of honeybees and in this section we will show how the Fibonacci numbers count a honeybee's ancestors (in this section a "bee" will mean a "honeybee").
First, some unusual facts about honeybees such as: not all of them have two parents!

In a colony of honeybees there is one special female called the queen.

There are many worker bees who are female too but unlike the queen bee, they produce no eggs.

There are some drone bees who are male and do no work.
Males are produced by the queen's unfertilised eggs, so male bees only have a mother but no father!

All the females are produced when the queen has mated with a male and so have two parents. Females usually end up as worker bees but some are fed with a special substance called royal jelly which makes them grow into queens ready to go off to start a new colony when the bees form a swarm and leave their home (a hive) in search of a place to build a new nest.

So female bees have 2 parents, a male and a female whereas male bees have just one parent, a female.
Here we follow the convention of Family Trees that parents appear above their children, so the latest generations are at the bottom and the higher up we go, the older people are. Such trees show all the ancestors (predecessors, forebears, antecedents) of the person at the bottom of the diagram. We would get quite a different tree if we listed all the descendants (progeny, offspring) of a person as we did in the rabbit problem, where we showed all the descendants of the original pair.
Let's look at the family tree of a male drone bee.

1. He had 1 parent, a female.
2. He has 2 grand-parents, since his mother had two parents, a male and a female.
3. He has 3 great-grand-parents: his grand-mother had two parents but his grand-father had only one.
4. How many great-great-grand parents did he have?

Again we see the Fibonacci numbers :
great- great,great gt,gt,gt grand- grand- grand grandNumber of parents: parents: parents: parents: parentsf a MALE bee: 1 2 3 5 8of a FEMALE bee: 2 3 5 8 13 The Fibonacci Sequence as it appears in Nature by S.L.Basin