Here’s how it works. The huge, mysterious hexagon at Saturn's north pole may finally have an explanation. The bizarre hexagonal cloud pattern was first discovered in 1988 by scientists reviewing ...

A hexagon has six sides ... prism.The cross-section is a pentagon.The 3D shape is a pentagonal prism. For all polyhedra the number of edges is two less than the sum of the number of vertices ...

The twin Voyager spacecraft first observed Saturn’s north polar hexagon in 1980 and 1981. This highly geometric feature in Saturn’s atmosphere has had significant speculation about its origin ...