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A laboratory model of Saturn’s North Polar Hexagon

✍ Scribed by Ana C. Barbosa Aguiar; Peter L. Read; Robin D. Wordsworth; Tara Salter; Y. Hiro Yamazaki

Book ID: 103830616
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Weight: 791 KB
Volume: 206
Category: Article
ISSN: 0019-1035
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.10.022

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have shown that the feature is still visible and largely unchanged. Its long lifespan and geometry has puzzled the planetary physics community for many years and its origin remains unclear. The measured rotation rate of the hexagon may be very close to that of the interior of the planet (Godfrey,

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