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aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day agoThat’s actually the prevailing theory. A hexagonal shape is the path of least resistance for the wind patterns on Saturn. It probably is really that simple.
Comment on WHY???
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 day agoThat’s actually the prevailing theory. A hexagonal shape is the path of least resistance for the wind patterns on Saturn. It probably is really that simple.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If only we could see other natural hexagons somewhere
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naught101@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unrelated though - that’s a packing efficiency thing.
Dasus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t think it’s completely unrelated though. I don’t claim to understand what’s actually going but seems to me that whatever winds are whipping about there could create fronts that are sort of similar as pressure as what happens with honeycombs. In one it’s just the cells themselves create the pressure whereas here it’s the giant planetwide storms.
Idk.
As a an interplanetary stormologist. Or a geometrisist.
naught101@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The movement (kinetic energy) is the driver with the atmospheric patterns. There’s no movement in the honey comb.