Talk:Saturn's hexagon

"Summary"

The so called "summary" in the main Saturn article is longer than this one! It does however have fewer pictures. Should this be flipped around? --Curiousdannii (talk) 14:00, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

The second sentence says "which is more than the diameter of Earth." Can this be changed to the more specific "which is about twice the diameter of Earth" instead? It's closer to 2.166, but I think "about twice" is specific enough. -T Cablio (talk) 01:25, 9 December 2016 (UTC)

Explanation

Sooo... Oxford produced a two-sided shape, eh? Hope they patented it! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.233.169.219 (talk) 20:29, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

I wish this was facebook so I could like this comment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.106.142.37 (talk) 20:26, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

A two sided shape would be a bar with a vortex on opposing sides.Lumos3 (talk) 18:54, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

I believe that some form of explanation of the phenomenon could be provided in the article. Something like this: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/04/saturns-strange-hexagon-recreate.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.54.173 (talk) 02:54, 14 December 2012 (UTC)

I agree. I browsed here from todays APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) at http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130220.html , leading to the discussion page at http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=30754, and from there to the article by Emily Lakdawall at http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2010/2471.html which discusses the work of Ana Claudia Barbosa Aguiar and Peter Read. -84user (talk) 13:06, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

There is a video clip of the waves forming in the Oxford University experimental model here Saturn's Hexagon Replicated In Laboratory which uses white 'tracer' particles . There's another clip using green dye as a tracer here [1] . These cannot at present be included in the article as it they are not a reliable source. Lumos3(talk) 09:18, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

See WP:YT. Not only are the video clips primary sources that are not reliable, but they very well may be copyright violations, because neither poster seems affiliated with Oxford. —hike395 (talk) 13:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Pictures

A gallery should be considered. No one goes to commons to view pictures. Check the viewing history of the page commons:Poles of Saturn, and the forwarded pages to it commons:North pole of Saturn, commons:Polar storms of Saturn. The commons page gets a few tens of visits, while wikipedia's gets hundreds, to a few thousand visits. Sidelight12 ^Talk 02:50, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Whether this article should cover storms of both polar regions

There are similarities between both polar storms that can be covered together. Sidelight12 ^Talk 02:39, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

Rotation

Quoting from the article, "It rotates with a period of 10h 39m 24s, the same period as Saturn's radio emissions from its interior."

The cited source, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17809277, seems to indicate that the rotation of the the hexagon is not the same as the periodicity in radio emissions.

The crucial sentence in the abstract that leads me to believe that the wiki sentence is an error is this:

'In the study reported here, this process is carried one stage further, with the derivation of a rotation rate for the spot associated with Satum's polar hexagon, which is simultaneously WITHIN AND MORE ACCURATE THAN the Saturnian radio period.'

The key words in that sentence being 'within and more accurate,' doesn't seem to mean 'same period as.'

Before making any changes, I would like to get some feedback. Maybe the full text (which I do not have access to) of the referenced article verifies the wiki article, or maybe I am missing something. Thank you for future attention!

"The hexagon does not shift in longitude"

This phrase doesn't make sense- an object at a pole can't shift in longitude. Is this supposed to say that the sides don't shift in longitude? In other words, that the hexagon doesn't rotate? KingSupernova (talk) 15:27, 30 August 2017 (UTC)

The Hexagon is an extended object. It isn't located solely at the geometric pole, but rather at finite latitudes away from the Pole. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.130.32 (talk) 00:22, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Possible explanation

I think that it's an ice cap - not improbable: other planets have them. My theory is that this one is composed of ice (water) that has crystallised into one huge mass - basically, the biggest snowflake that you can imagine, and then some. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:18, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

The Gas Giants don't have polar ice caps. Everything you see superficially on Saturn is gaseous, a fluid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.130.32 (talk) 00:24, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

Your suppositions are not only baseless and counterfactual, but completely irrelevant here. -- 184.189.217.210 (talk) 06:05, 1 November 2017 (UTC)