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[FantasticMrFoxdie]

NASA is calling it "The Rose." By any other name, it's a mammoth storm on Saturn's north pole. Its eye spans an estimated 1,250 miles — 20 times the size of an average hurricane's eye on Earth. Winds in the Saturn storm's eye wall are believed to be four times as fast.

The stunning image of the spinning vortex was given "false colors" to emphasize low clouds (in red) versus high clouds (in green). NASA estimates that the clouds at the outer edge are moving at up to 330 miles per hour.

"The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon," NASA says. The space agency's analysts say the storm has likely been swirling in the same spot for years — because it's on a pole, there's nowhere for it to drift.

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("Human-Eye" filter)

Gorgeous, kind of. Throw in vortex if old

 

[Bornstellar]

Looks like a portal to hell.

 

[bangai-o]

what does it mean for Earth?

 

[- J - D -]

Cool, but I prefer the other image in the link. It's less embellished.

 

[FSLink]

Reminds me of Giygas.

 

[Escape Goat]

Shit, Mt Doom is on Saturn. Way to miss the mark, Frodo!

 

[PBY]

Shit, Mt Doom is on Saturn. Way to miss the mark, Frodo!

what if....


Middle Earth is on Saturn?

 

[Log4Girlz]

Top image looks like Uranus.

 

[lastplayed]

Looks like a portal to hell.

 

[Escape Goat]

Top image looks like Uranus.

You seem to be all up in Uranus today.

 

[jaxword]

Top image looks like Uranus.

Better see a doctor for those hemorrhoids.

 

[Log4Girlz]

You seem to be all up in Uranus today.

I would love to someday visit Uranus.

 

[Secret Fawful]

Looks like a Gustav Dore representation of Giygas.

 

[Timedog]

I want to put my penis in your anus.

Spoiler

Get it? Uranus => Ur Anus => Your Anus.

 

[womfalcs3]

As we go about our boring daily routines here on earth, there is some seriously exciting stuff happening on Saturn.

 

[ant1532]

:O

 

[Log4Girlz]

I want to put my penis in your anus.

Spoiler

Get it? Uranus => Ur Anus => Your Anus.

I think I got it.

 

[ComputerMKII]

HotKinkyJo must be jealous.

 

[xbhaskarx]

what does it mean for Earth?

doom

 

[RibMan]

The colors are beautiful.

 

[Log4Girlz]

HotKinkyJo must be jealous.

She's an enormous asshole.

 

[zon]

Goatse in space!

She's an enormous asshole.

It's a thing of beauty.

 

[DiscoJer]

I hope Hziulquoigmnzhah is okay.

 

[Escape Goat]

I would love to someday visit Uranus.

Its difficult to attempt reentry into Uranus.

 

[Tesseract]

the universe is a monster.

 

[Mdeezy]

So fn cool

 

[Princess Carl]

I know these puns are terrible but I cant help but laugh and laugh and laugh

 

[fluffydelusions]

Psh...still just a baby compared to the one on Jupiter

 

[DBT85]

"The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon," NASA says.

I need to get on the naming committee.

 

[Tesseract]

2006 thermal photo of the freaky hexagon.

 

[fierrotlepou]

Too bad it's colored.

It's only a 'rose' because of the fake coloring.

It's still very cool though!

 

[User 73706]

Great White Spot vs Rose / Hexagon Tag Team

gogogo

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Too bad it's colored.

WTF???

 

[Escape Goat]

WTF???

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=515310

 

[DeFiBkIlLeR]

I'm always wary of these 'bullshot' images released by NASA, as wonderful as they are, they rarely represent what the human eye would see if somehow you could park a spaceship in orbit and look at them for real.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=515310

Oh..so he wasn't being racist.

 

[MarkusRJR]

I feel bad that I keep laughing at the Uranus jokes in this thread.

 

[Escape Goat]

Oh..so he wasn't being racist.

Oh dear...lol.

 

[DrForester]

Way to go, Shinji....

 

[freenudemacusers]

even nasa is jumping on this rosebud trend

 

[Escape Goat]

even nasa is jumping on this rosebud trend

Do you think there is a rosebud on Uranus?

 

[freenudemacusers]

Do you think there is a rosebud on Uranus?

it's in there somewhere, just gotta roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty to find it.

 

[big_z]

...waiting for the goatse shop.

 

[L00P]

I would love to someday visit Uranus.

what's in uranus anyway

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

Nice geometry.

 

[jaxword]

what's in uranus anyway

A black hole.

 

[Alastor]

I want to be there, right in the center.

 

[zer0blivion]

I'm always wary of these 'bullshot' images released by NASA, as wonderful as they are, they rarely represent what the human eye would see if somehow you could park a spaceship in orbit and look at them for real.

False colours are a great way to visualize the parts of the EM spectrum we can't see with the human eye. Often the visible-light images are very boring compared to the false-colour images.

 

[Mobius 1]

 

[fierrotlepou]

Oh..so he wasn't being racist.

Hahah. Thanks for the laugh!