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Originally posted by MurrayTORONTO
Look.
It's doing this over ontario as well.. like cmon I check this every single day to see if it's going to be sunny, ive never seen a straight edge of clouds where they disappear like that.
www.weatheroffice.gc.ca...
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[edit on 4-10-2008 by MurrayTORONTO]
Originally posted by remotemedic
Does anyone else have big red X's all over it now?
Science fact is something far stranger than fiction. Case in point is a new picture released from NASA from their Cassini probe currently orbiting Saturn.
I don’t think any human has ever seen anything like it.(Though Voyager 1 and 2 did more than 25 years ago).
It’s a hexagon shaped cloud formation that now covers the entire North Pole of the ringed planet. The hexagon is nearly 25,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) across. Nearly four Earths could fit inside it. This image was acquired with the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer , from an average distance of 1.3 million kilometers (807,782 miles).
In the village of Erikuppam, near Arni, 130 KM from Chennai, India, there is one temple for Lord Saturn. Unlike the other temples, here the Lord is in the ‘Yantra’ form. The Hexagon shown by NASA resembles very much the inscriptions shown in this Yantra. This has been made hundreds of years back. May be some Rishi has visualised this concept of Saturn. It is a real woder and woth studying further on it.
In Vedic astrology the planet Saturn is called SHANI. In Sanskrit Shani comes from SANISCHARA, which means, "slow mover". From Shani we get the word "shun", which means to ignore, or lose awareness of something. Thus, Saturn represents a loss of awareness, or ignorance. This loss of awareness can also mean the diminishing awareness of the material world of manifestation.
Images of areas north of 60° look different because they come from a different satellite
Most weather satellites are in geosynchronous orbit and take a picture of an entire hemisphere (a disk showing the planet earth), polar-orbiting satellites are so low, they only take in a small swath below the satellite at each orbit. So to get a full-disk, one must-using software-"stitch" the swaths together. Because the strips are photographed at different times, the result is not a true image, but a composition.
Instead of staying high over one place, a polar orbiting satellite moves very quickly (orbits in less than two hours), at much lower altitude (around 800 km).
Originally posted by violet
reply to post by MurrayTORONTO
That's a very interesting image of Saturn, no doubt, but for comparison - that's a 6 sided hexagon, and the Earth image is a 5 sided pentagram, and not a perfectly formed geometric shape.
Originally posted by violet
reply to post by MurrayTORONTO
Yes. The Saturn image is a full picture showing it is indeed an unusual hexagon shape, whereas the earth image "shape" is nothing unusual, because it's caused by missing data.
Characteristics of a regular hexagon:
Number of sides = 6:
Number of vertices = 6:
Interior angle = 120°:
Exterior angle = 60°:
Exterior angle multiplied by the number of sides = 360°. (60° X 6 = 360°):