A decagon on Saturn?! #shorts

By Dr. Becky

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You can imagine my squeal of joy when I saw the news about the discovery of the decagon at the south pole. A 10 sided shaped storm raging around Saturn’s south pole, which joins the other pointy shape storm on Saturn: the hexagon at its north pole. The hexagon was first spotted back in the 1980s when Voyager flew past Saturn. And it’s been there in every observation we’ve took since, and always while Cassini was in orbit around Saturn. And despite searching for a similar feature at Saturn’s south pole all those years as well, we’ve never found anything. Now if you’re thinking, wait how do we see Saturn’s south pole, because we look at it and see it from the side. But Saturn has seasons like Earth does, its axis it spins around is tilted, so as it orbits the Sun sometimes its northern hemisphere is pointed more towards the Sun, and vice versa. In the past few Earth years, the seasons have switched on Saturn with the south pole now pointing towards the Sun, and us here on Earth. I

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