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Unusual Auroras Over Saturn's North Pole

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  • oblique63, on 11/19/2008, -1/+16darn, blue ring of death... I hope it's still under warranty...
  • Dailydose4me, on 11/19/2008, -2/+15Damn....what the ????
  • lostfromorion, on 11/19/2008, -3/+14wow aliens comin!
  • xdvx, on 11/19/2008, -1/+11More info: http://www.sharenator.com/Saturns_north_polar_hot_ ...
  • RedRummy, on 11/19/2008, -1/+7frequencies and shapes of what?
    poured by who?
    saturn vibrates?

    i'm pretty sure its not flat though.
  • Navicerts, on 11/19/2008, -1/+6It's all so clear now....
  • TipTopTommy, on 11/19/2008, -1/+6the universe is insane! and im not even high!!
  • theskillwithin, on 11/19/2008, -2/+7It has been explained,, just not by nasa.... it has to do with frequencies and the shapes they make in sand when poored evenly on a flat vibrating surface.
  • KibblesnBitts, on 11/19/2008, -2/+6Global Warming
  • divinediva, on 11/19/2008, -1/+5This will give us the direction to travel to the north pole and also the light up auroras over their poles just like our inner sun does here on earth.
  • Sillywombat, on 11/19/2008, -1/+4They are charging up the Deathbeam.
  • RedRummy, on 11/19/2008, -1/+3what kinda chicks have you been hanging round with ?!
  • sonar1, on 11/19/2008, -1/+3i will obey all mighty hypnotoad
  • newsfully, on 11/19/2008, -3/+5Looks like a boob
  • d2002, on 11/19/2008, -1/+3We'll get you next time Sauron!
  • JoeRW, on 11/19/2008, -1/+2Here it comes. Saturn is an apostle of prophecy. Evidence is precient. Matter will sublimate shortly.
  • EricMiIIer, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2You should probably get that checked out.
  • searcade, on 11/19/2008, -1/+2Sure they are... i thought it was uranus when i saw the pic lol
  • christoast, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1Da da da da-da da-da Ghostbusters!

  • Dinsdale77, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1I can't tell what the hell I'm looking at.
  • inactive, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1cymatics
  • turtlebear, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1ha ha ha
  • nowhereelse, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1Thanks. Another observation that supports an alternative to Big Bang cosmology. I wonder how many more it will take to change our paradigm.
  • HamstaMan, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1The big round red and blue glowing ones?
  • drhex31, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1i am sure glad obama is here to stop use from causing more global warming on other planets, i just hope he is not to late to save saturn
  • LuckyEMS, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1LSD trip baby
  • sarchosis, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1That's freaky. Images like that are always freaky, knowing that they actually exist out there.
  • RedRummy, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1thanks for the narration of your thinking while reading the comments.

    it may well be convection, but it involves magnetic fields.
  • sindex, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1Try reading the description and clicking on a few links for clarification.

    Welcome to the Internet.
  • theskillwithin, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1http://www.tjmitchell.com/stuart/saturnhex.html
  • fatlip, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1anyone else here Bowie from that FOTC episode in this comment?
  • kraftj, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1I love NASA photos.
  • CrimsonFlash, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1Looks like something out of Half Life...
  • kocurejd, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1I'm so glad people are finally starting to post the current APODs instead of ones from 2005.
  • theskillwithin, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1thats just a 2d experiment to explain why the 3d shaps form.
    yes everything vibrates. and satern does have weather.

    http://www.tjmitchell.com/stuart/saturnhex.html
  • Sheff, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1I thought this said, "Unusual aureolas..."
  • neurobox, on 11/19/2008, -1/+1the 'ring' isn't from light coming out of a hole as the planet spins, it's from the magnetic lines intersecting the planet at that lattitude, funneling charged particles there.
  • theskillwithin, on 11/19/2008, -2/+1nope its just the planets weather
    http://www.tjmitchell.com/stuart/saturnhex.html
  • kudzufire, on 11/19/2008, -1/+0I like the global warming comment because it is amusing and the sand on vibrating surface comment is cool, but I think it's convection caused when a liquid has different temperatures below and above. Causes convection cells.
  • natterca, on 11/19/2008, -2/+1Nah, Santa outsourced his workshop there.
  • ChileanGoD, on 11/19/2008, -2/+1Looks more like a lava pit.
  • ashgtx, on 11/19/2008, -2/+1Cool but mysterious...

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