Incredible Saturn Aurora Photo

This is an incredible Cassini photo showing two amazing phenomena. The blue areas are Saturn’s northern lights (aurora borealis, just like on Earth!). Underneath the blue there is a dark hexagon 15,000 miles in diameter. This is Saturn’s polar vortex (again, just like Earth, but six-sided instead of round.

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