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Wallpaper: Southern Saturn

The Gordan Ugarkovic fan club must be thrilled this week with all the recent Saturn images. This new one is among the best around, reminiscent of the fantastic Ian Regan composite. A gorgeous view of Saturn’s southern pole which has seen very little exposure in terms of global views (or near global) like this. The now famous “storm” dead-centered around the pole can be seen directly to the left of the image caption.

Wallpaper: Southern Saturn

As always, the Ugarkovic flickr page for all the latest.

NOTE: An ever so slight amount of Photoshop image extension was applied to the far right side of the image only at the edge. Probably about .5% of the image.

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6 Responses to “Wallpaper: Southern Saturn”

  1. Gordan Says:
    January 4th, 2008 at 4:46 am

    Actually, the hexagon is located at the north pole and is still pretty much in darkness. This is the south polar storm (see here: http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=2285 )

    And, yeah, this shot is one of my favs as well.

  2. thomas Says:
    January 4th, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    doh… i should just have you be the editor here. right, the south pole is that huge round-eyelike storm. now i have to fix the wallpaper too!

  3. thomas Says:
    January 4th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    oddly, i swear i can see a hexagon in there as well.

  4. Gordan Says:
    January 4th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    Yeah, I can see something of a faint hexagon, too, but it’s nowhere as pronounced as the north polar one. Apparently.

  5. Bill Says:
    January 7th, 2008 at 8:03 pm

    Is it just me, or do the light bands further to the north also have a “polygonal” feel?

  6. thomas Says:
    January 9th, 2008 at 9:25 am

    there are some straight looking lines in there, but i think its coincidental.

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