Scientists Find a Huge 10-Sided Wave Pattern Swirling in the Clouds over Saturn’s South Pole - WXXV News 25
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Saturn’s South Pole Is Apparently Decagon-Shaped
Saturn’s north pole captured by Cassini in 2013. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/CICLOPS/Kevin M. Gill) Although some would argue that the hexagon is the bestagon, astronomers have discovered that Saturn appears to favor the ten-sided decagon on its south pole. This comes as its south pole has recently been confirmed to show a pattern that’s oddly ten-sided, per a recent research article by [Agustín Sánchez-Lavega] et al. in Science Advances. Beca…
Scientists find a huge 10-sided wave pattern swirling in the clouds over Saturn’s south pole - WXXV News 25
This photo provided by NASA/ESA/A. Sánchez-Lavega (Basque Country University) shows a pattern of clouds around the Saturn’s south pole on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026. (NASA/ESA/A. Sánchez-Lavega, Basque Country University, EHU, via AP)By MARCIA DUNN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have discovered an enormous 10-sided wave pattern in the icy ammonia clouds over Saturn’s south pole. The spinning, meandering decagon appears to...
Astronomers spotted a gigantic ten-sided unstable current that redefines understanding of the atmospheres of the gaseous planets.
After the hexagonic icon at the North Pole, it is a ten-sided structure at the South Pole of Saturn. A decagon for a new atmospheric secret.
Hubble and the VLT reveal that the decagon of clouds of Saturn's south pole, with a side of 16,700 km, is moving and could evolve since 2017.
A massive, never-before-seen atmospheric structure has been discovered at Saturn's south pole. The decagon, approximately 168,000 kilometers wide, is much larger than the famous hexagon at the planet's north pole. Scientists are trying to understand how this mysterious structure formed and how it might change in the future.
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