Octagon storm on Satur's North pole

Discussion in 'Astronomy, Exobiology, & Cosmology' started by machiaventa, Sep 1, 2007.

  1. machiaventa Registered Senior Member

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    Has any got any more information about the octagon shaped storm found on Saturn's north pole? The cassini space craft just arrived there and took pictures of it, You can find them on Nasa's web sight.Why would a storm have 8 sides to it. I guess nature doesn't make everything round or curved like we thought.:shrug:

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  3. DwayneD.L.Rabon Registered Senior Member

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    Well to me it would seem that saturns internal planetary bodie has broken apart,and the stroms that you see in the picture are the remaining matter, which is most likly carbon.
    Saturn as well as the other gaseous planets all have internal bodies of low density which float in the atompshere of the planets, they may be in locked orbits or may develope a orbit with revolution around the planets. most of the locations which are internal planetary bodies can be seen on the gaseous planets as they cause what is called a eye on the surface, for example the red eye of jupiter. The eye of jupiter is actually a internal planet that is locked in orbit within jupiters atmopshere, it cause a vector which looks like a storm.

    Saturn also in the past had such a eye as jupiter, it disappeared some 20 years ago, which is probally because the internal planetary bodie gained a motion as the locked orbit failed and changed from a eye strom to a band or line eventually the internal broke apart and the carbon mass was attracted to the pole forming this black strom on saturns pole.

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  5. machiaventa Registered Senior Member

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    Why is it shaped with 8 sides? You can look right down into the planet's atmosphere almost to the surface.Could there some intelligent design to this phenomenom?

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  7. Xylene Valued Senior Member

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    The picture I saw of the 'storm' (if that's what it is) was of two concentric hexagon shapes.

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    No idea what they could be, except perhaps a chance cloud-belt formation. No solid surface on Saturn, so structures of any kind are out of the question--besides if they were they would have to be absolutely vast, and would risk being torn apart by Saturn's winds.
     
  8. DwayneD.L.Rabon Registered Senior Member

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    It maybe that saturns magnetic pole is reversing, and one of the magnetic poles has collasped, the other magnetic pole will maintain the feild cycle untill the final reversal.
    A point when the magnetic feild has reached it minimum threshhold, the weakest feild that can be maintained.
    it would seem appropiate that the internal bodies that have accumulated in the atmopshere would fall a part, in a collaspe sprialing to some end.

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  9. machiaventa Registered Senior Member

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    Sorry: It was a six sided storm and it is still there going on 4 years now. What a phenomenom this Huh!!!
     
  10. TheChristei Registered Member

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    I first heard of this storm when listening to the Saturn episode of AstronomyCast. Dr. Pamela Gay said this about a suspected reason for the constant shape of this storm:

    Looking at it, there are rings of structure around it that you can see in different thermal images. It's like this honeycomb of cloud structure. We don't know why it's there.

    There are people who've worked on it who think it's some sort of standing wave phenomena. It's sort of like if you tap a bridge just right, in theory you can get the entire bridge oscillating. In theory, if you hit any liquid, any substance that's capable of motion, you can generate waves that will, with very little energy going in, just build and build and build.

    So there are people who are thinking this is some sort of standing wave phenomena on the north pole of Saturn. It's just creepy. And we don't know why.​

    Src: AstronomyCast website, show notes, episode 59
     
  11. nietzschefan Thread Killer Valued Senior Member

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    It's got to be magnetically related being right at the pole.
     
  12. DwayneD.L.Rabon Registered Senior Member

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    Good point !

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