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March 28, 2007—Everyone knows Saturn's rings, but what about the planet's hexagon?

A new image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft offers the first direct view of a six-sided feature that encircles Saturn's north pole. The 15,000-mile-wide (25,000-kilometer-wide) cloud formation was initially spied during the Voyager missions in the 1980s. But scientists remain baffled by the atmospheric forces driving the unusual feature.

'Nobody understands what it is,' said Kevin Baines, a member of Cassini's"

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