The Story of Space Imaging with Carolyn “Madam Saturn” Porco
StarTalk Radio
The Hexagon on Saturn's South Pole
Hexagons can be responsible for spiral arms and galaxies. You can't measure their motion in a galaxy because the periods of rotation periods in a galaxy are like 200 million years. But we found the smaller version of them, the Saturn-Lim equivalent in Saturn rings. So it really was so thrilling to find something that really exists on a galactic scale and we found evidence of it in Saturn Rings.
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