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2/ Nobody is sure why would clouds form a hexagon on Saturn. One hypothesis, by University of Oxford, is that the hexagon forms where there is a steep latitudinal gradient in the speed of the atmospheric winds in Saturn's atmosphere. Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 4, 2025, 5:23 PM
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