Don’t expect an answer to this puzzle anytime soon….

Just published today on the NASA/JPL website. Kevin Baines, a member of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory team, says:

This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides. We’ve never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn’s thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you’d expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is.

For the full story, and more pictures, click here.

If you’d like to see another space image that conveys a "high degree of order", click here. For powerful words by Carl Sagan, click here.

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