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A six-sided storm pattern circles Saturn's north pole. The hexagon spans about 20,000 miles and is a jet stream of 200-mile-per-hour winds, NASA says.
ILLUSTRATION · AIA six-sided jet stream about 20,000 miles across circles Saturn's north pole, NASA says.
The hexagon-shaped pattern was first noticed in images from the twin Voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s and was later observed more closely by the Cassini spacecraft.
Spanning about 20,000 miles (30,000 kilometers), the hexagon is a wavy jet stream of 200-mile-per-hour winds, about 322 kilometers per hour, with a massive, rotating storm at its center.
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