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DescriptionRotatingsaturnhexagon.gif	English: Satellite picture of the "hexagon on Saturn" - it is a hexagon twice as wide as Earth around Saturn's north pole. First observed by the Voyager 1 probe in the 1980s, the hexagon has been sighted still by the Cassini probe
Date	10 November 2006 (images collected by Cassini probe) 27 March 2007 (animation published)
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09187 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia09187.html
Author	NASA
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