http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...aturn_hex.html
full article:
"one of the most bizarre weather patterns known has been photographed at saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided feature circling the north pole.
rather than the normally sinuous cloud structures seen on all planets that have atmospheres, this thing is a hexagon.
the honeycomb-like feature has been seen before. nasa's voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged it more than two decades ago. now, having spotted it with the cassini spacecraft, scientists conclude it is a long-lasting oddity.
"this is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," said kevin baines, atmospheric expert and member of cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory, pasadena, calif. "we've never seen anything like this on any other planet. indeed, saturn's thick atmosphere, where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate, is perhaps the last place you'd expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is."
the hexagon is nearly 15,000 miles (25,000 kilometers) across. nearly four earths could fit inside it. the thermal imagery shows the hexagon extends about 60 miles (100 kilometers) down into the clouds.
at saturn's south pole, cassini recently spotted a freaky human eye-like feature that resembles a hurricane.
"it's amazing to see such striking differences on opposite ends of saturn's poles," said bob brown, team leader of the cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer at the university of arizona. "at the south pole we have what appears to be a hurricane with a giant eye, and at the north pole of saturn we have this geometric feature, which is completely different."
the hexagon appears to have remained fixed with saturn's rotation rate and axis since first glimpsed by voyager 26 years ago. the actual rotation rate of saturn is still uncertain, which means nobody knows exactly how long the planet's day is.
"once we understand its dynamical nature, this long-lived, deep-seated polar hexagon may give us a clue to the true rotation rate of the deep atmosphere and perhaps the interior," baines said. "
personally, i've read portions of david's divine cosmos book in the past, but not the whole thing, nor understood it completely.
however, i have recently read a few physical books on sacred geometry, but my general feeling about the harmonics of the universe is this:
hexagons, squares, various other geometric shapes occur throughout nature, especially in micro crystalline structures, usually on the "micro" level because certain forces on that level behave in a regular way that causes them to occur.
now, for this shape to occur on the "macro" level (several times the size of earth), it indicates to me, that universe, the fabric of space itself, must have harmonics that are as-yet unrecognized by modern science, as, our understanding of the structure of nature is limited to our understanding that all large systems apparently move towards disorder, entropy.
this shows that that view is indeed, not entirely correct.
as above, so below. god shows us the inherent harmonic geometric structures he created, from waves of light, to molecular structures, dna, all the way up this hexagon on mars.



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