{"id":21235,"date":"2018-09-07T04:56:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T04:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=21235"},"modified":"2018-09-07T04:56:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T04:56:25","slug":"saturn-s-north-polar-hexagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=21235","title":{"rendered":"Saturn s North Polar Hexagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/1809\/PIA17652SaturnHexagon.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>In full view, the amazing six-sided jet stream known as Saturn&#8217;s north polar hexagon is shown in this colorful Cassini image. Extending to 70 degrees north latitude, the false-color video frame is map-projected, based on infrared, visible, and ultraviolet image data recorded by the Saturn-orbiting spacecraft in late 2012. First found in the outbound Voyager flyby images from the 1980s, the bizarre, long-lived feature tied to the planet&#8217;s rotation is about 30,000 kilometers across. At its center lies the ringed gas giant&#8217;s hurricane-like north polar storm. A new long term study of Cassini data has found a remarkable higher-altitude vortex, exactly matching the outlines of the north polar hexagon, that formed as summer approached the planet&#8217;s northern hemisphere. It appears to reach hundreds of kilometers above these deeper cloud tops, into Saturn&#8217;s stratosphere. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap180907.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In full view, the amazing six-sided jet stream known as Saturn&#8217;s north polar hexagon is shown in this colorful Cassini image. Extending to 70 degrees north latitude, the false-color video <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=21235\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-21235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21236,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21235\/revisions\/21236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}