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What are these shapes?

Saturn's poles feature stable, geometric atmospheric patterns. The north pole has a famous hexagon, and now a decagon has been found at the south pole. These shapes are giant jet streams, like Earth's but much larger and more defined, driven by the planet's rotation and atmospheric dynamics. They're a fascinating example of fluid mechanics on a planetary scale.

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Saturn's south pole now has a strange 10-sided atmospheric shape

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