• Saturn's north pole shows yellowish clouds arranged in the shape of a massive hexagon, with a red cyclone at its center.
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    Scientists were stunned and perplexed when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft returned images of jet streams arranged in the shape of a hexagon at Saturn’s north pole.

  • Saturn's north pole shows yellowish clouds arranged in the shape of a massive hexagon, with a red cyclone at its center.

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