{"id":379,"date":"2010-04-09T15:06:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=379"},"modified":"2012-08-13T11:31:59","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:31:59","slug":"saturns-hexagonal-ring-explained-partly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Saturn&#8217;s hexagonal ring explained (partly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2010\/04\/saturns-strange-hexagon-recreate.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/assets_c\/2010\/04\/sn-hexagon-thumb-200xauto-2941.jpg?resize=200%2C202\" height=\"202\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hexagon ring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saturn#North_pole_hexagon_cloud_pattern\" target=\"_blank\">discovery a few years ago<\/a> on Saturn was fascinating, but <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2010\/04\/saturns-strange-hexagon-recreate.html\" target=\"_blank\">this possible solution from some fluid dynamics folks  <\/a>appears even more so.\u00a0 Their basic premise is that they can duplicate the flow by spinning a ring under the surface of the water.\u00a0 This would imply the pattern is created by some kind of high-speed storm running around the pole below the visible cloud layer.<\/p>\n<p>A particularly interesting part of the article is that they can\u00a0 make other shapes too by varying the speed  of the underlying spinning ring\/storm.\u00a0 My question is since it was a scale study &#8211; how fast would the winds in that storm be running?\u00a0 As it is, wind speeds on Saturn are already known to reach 1,800\u00a0km\/h &#8211; and that&#8217;s crazy fast (~Mach 1.5).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hexagon ring discovery a few years ago on Saturn was fascinating, but this possible solution from some fluid dynamics folks appears even more so.\u00a0 Their basic premise is that they can duplicate the flow by spinning a ring under the surface of the water.\u00a0 This would imply the pattern is created by some kind of high-speed storm running around the pole below the visible cloud layer. A particularly interesting part of the article is that they can\u00a0 make other&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=379\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-67","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}