Pic of bizarro Hexagon Jet Stream on Saturn. Sure would be nice to learn why this happened...

via Nasa's flickr

This image from Cassini, made possible only as Saturn's north pole emerged from winter darkness, shows new details of a jet stream that follows a hexagon-shaped path and has long puzzled scientists.

Full image and caption | Read more | JPL Homepage

I just love that nobody ever complains about how we don't spend enough money on learning things. It seems like science and education are always relegated to some sort of cultural ghetto. The universe is incredibly vast and filled with untold mysteries, but we'd rather worry about profits, terrorism and controlling what strangers do in their private lives. Explain how that jetstream around Saturn's north pole could possibly do that.

Bet you can't.

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