Alternating flows and a high-latitude eastward jet explain Saturn’s polar hexagon, researchers report

Alternating flows and a high-latitude eastward jet explain Saturn’s polar hexagon, researchers report
A pair of researchers at Harvard University has developed a computer simulation that may explain Saturn’s mysterious polar hexagon. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Rakesh Yadav and Jeremy Bloxham describe the factors that went into developing their simulation and what it showed.
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