Astronomers Detect a 10-Sided Structure in Saturn's Atmosphere

Not a "structure", but rather atmospheric resonance create this polygonal shape, from cyclones self-arrangement etc.

Same thing on Jupiter, by the way, known since a long time.

I'd say that "structure" is click-baity, as it evokes some artifact.

Years ago there was a video on YouTube showing that geometric shapes appear in a vortex of water at different rates of spin. While it is neat that these shapes appear in atmosphere of another planet I have since assumed that it is the same dynamic as shapes in water vortices.

There is a talk amongst Astrophysics (not a serious one) that we showed up too late as a civilization, and Universes thrived at around 5 billion years after the big bang.

Now we are 13.8 billion years old, and the Earth formed around 4.5 billion years ago.

That 7+ billion year gap is so huge, we cannot even detect any structures anywhere.

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My thoughts out of my @$$

The possibility is the Mars where there is a big scar on it, where it could have had been a space war, but cannot figure out as it's been billions of years ago.

Same for the Saturn. It could have had harboring another life form and try to protect itself with the thick atmospheric shield in the gas giant to avoid the demise the Mars has encountered.

Looks like a better Sauron's eye. If there are any Hollywood movie producers here, please make this an evil villain vibe in a movie. Saturn is awesome

Economy so bad I'm looking up rentals in Saturn's 10 sided structure

"In addition to the difference in the number of sides," Sánchez-Lavega explained, "the decagon is situated at a less polar latitude than the hexagon in the southern hemisphere,

Just a thought: how do lengths of the sides compare between north pole's hexagon and this south pole decagon? Causes might be unclear but perhaps that side length corresponds to a 'wavelength' that's more-or-less a constant?

My first thought on seeing the images was "texture coordinates for a sphere are hard"

The brief excitement in the space between expecting a decahedral possibly artificial structure lurking in a gas giant and finding out it's just wind.

Aliens playing D&D

Taking in mind the gyrating hexagon that seems unique in the solar system (rings had been found in other planets) I propose to rename the sixth planet to Hexaturn.

Atmospheric structure not artificial

A monolith!

Is it just me or does the dark blob in the center of the decagon look like a Mandelbrot set? The resemblance appears more acute in the images lower down in the article.

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