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What causes Saturn’s strange polar cloud hexagon?

June 24, 2020

Simulation with deep convection run on computers housed at the MGHPCC points to hidden vortices.
Read this story at Ars Technica
Story image: From an animation showing the time evolution of streamlines in a simulation of flow on Saturn - courtesy: The researchers

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