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by jensenq
Mon Feb 25, 2013 11:56 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Saturns Hexagon and Rings (2013 Feb 20)
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Re: APOD: Saturns Hexagon and Rings (2013 Feb 20)

Maybe it's not so much a hexagon, as it is a near sinusoidal wave mapped onto near the top of a sphere. In that case, could it just be resonance? What does it look like mapped to a cylinder and then amplified a bit?