The all seeing eye of Saturn

The All-Seeing Eye of Saturn

- Physicists Ana Claudia Barbosa Aguiar and Peter Read were able to recreate Saturn's Hexagon in the laboratory, using little more than water and a spinning table. Aguiar suggests that the polar jet stream to the north pole of Saturn rotates at a speed greater than the rest of the atmosphere which then favors a six-sided figure , that is a hexagon.

- Although the laboratory experiment does not explain what force is driving this current with a particular jet , the findings could give a real view of what might actually happen in the atmosphere of Saturn.

Scientists' opinions:

recreation of Hexagon:

- Saturn's hexagon was recreated in the laboratory when a circular tank of liquid was rotated at different speeds at its center and periphery. The most common shape was six sided, but shapes from three to eight sided were also produced.

- A number of stable vortexes of similar size form and interact with each other to space themselves out evenly around the perimeter.

- The presence of the vortexes influences the boundary to move northward where each is present and this gives rise to the polygon effect. Polygons do not form at wind boundaries unless the speed differential and viscosity parameters are within certain margins.

- Some believe it to be some type of Illuminati structure, a hidden Alien space craft, as well as the Gates to Hell.

- One hypothesis, is that the hexagon forms where there is a steep latitudinal gradient in the speed of the atmospheric winds in Saturn's atmosphere.

- Some believe it's caused by very low-frequency sound waves emanating from some sort of geological action on the planet's surface. They believe that these sound waves are being focused toward the north pole of the planet in much the same way that earthquake shock waves can "bounce" off subterranean geological features.

Conspiracy Theories/theories:

Background info:

Concept Check:

- Saturn's polar hexagon discovery was made by the Voyager mission in 1981–82, and was revisited later in 2006 by the Cassini mission.

- In 2007, NASA published some new images taken by the Cassini spacecraft. The images showed a shocking hexagon that encompassed all of Saturn’s north pole, leading scientists to speculate as to what caused it.

- The image was shocking not only because it seemed to be so geometrically precise, but also because of its immense size—NASA scientists say that the equivalent of four Earths could fit inside the area of the anomaly.

1. Who were the physicists who recreated Saturn's Hexagon?

a. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz

b. Ana Claudia Barbosa Aguiar and Peter Read

c. Carl Sagan and Neil De Grasse Tyson

2. Where was it recreated?

a. a laboratory

b. a computer lab

c. space

Sources:

- http://listverse.com/2015/01/18/10-strange-conspiracy-theories-about-our-solar-system/

- https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/23j38v/the_mystery_hexagon_on_saturn/

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn's_hexagon

- http://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/19/Conspiracy-Theories-in-Space-Saturns-Hexagon/

- http://www.naturalnews.com/028797_Saturn_hexagon.html

3. What was the name of the spacecraft which took pictures of Saturn's Hexagon?

a. The Cassini spacecraft

b. The Galileo spacecraft

c. neither

4. Which Mission discovered Saturn's Hexagon?

a. Cassini Mission

b. Voyager Mission

c. Saturn Mission

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