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Rotatingsaturnhexagon.gif (384 × 384 pixels, file size: 4.05 MB, MIME type: image/gif, looped, 37 frames, 7.4 s)

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English: Satellite picture of the "hexagon on Saturn" - it is a hexagon twice as wide as Earth around Saturn's north pole. First observed by the Voyager 1 probe in the 1980s, the hexagon has been sighted still by the Cassini probe
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  • 10 November 2006 (images collected by Cassini probe)
  • 27 March 2007 (animation published)
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