Saturn's Hexagon Could Be an Enormous Tower

Above Saturn's north pole, clouds swirl in a distinct and stunning hexagonal shape. Discovered by NASA’s Voyager mission in 1981, Saturn's hexagon is striking to behold, and one new study suggests that this six-sided vortex may actually be hundreds of kilometers tall.
After the Voyager mission pushed human exploration far out into the solar system and, subsequently, discovered Saturn's hexagon whirling at a low altitude, the Cassini spacecraft returned to the ringed planet in 2004 and co