Saturn’s South Pole Has a New Decagon. What Is It?
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In the southern polar region of the planet Saturn, astronomers have discovered a cloud pattern that lies ten-angularly around the pole. How it comes about is not yet quite clear.
Saturn’s South Pole Has a New Decagon. What Is It?
Hubble has found a growing ten-sided atmospheric wave around Saturn’s south pole—the first large regular-sided jet seen there. Saturn has long been known for a strange shape in its clouds. A vast hexagon circles the planet’s north pole, holding its form for more than four decades. Now astronomers have found something that looks as if […]
The Hubble telescope captures a decagon at the southern pole of Saturn, a geometric pattern as intriguing as the northern hexagon. NASA’s El Hubble entry captures a decagon of Saturn at the southern pole, the enigmatic twin of the northern hexagon aparece primero en Merca2.
A mysterious decagonal formation has been identified at the south pole of the ringed planet.
A gigantic decagon, that is, a figure with ten sides, appeared around the southern pole of Saturn. It is not drawn on the surface or formed by mountains: its sides exist within the planet’s own atmosphere. The Hubble space telescope confirmed the finding in September 2026. Scientists determined that it is a huge ten-sided atmospheric wave embedded within a powerful jet stream, located around 63 degrees south latitude. Observations show signs of …
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