A six-sided segment of Saturn

"'This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides,' said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 'We've never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn's thick atmosphere, where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate, is perhaps the last place you'd expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is.'

"The honeycomb-like feature has been seen before. NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged it more than two decades ago. Now, having spotted it with the Cassini spacecraft, scientists conclude it is a long-lasting oddity.

Of course, seeing a hexagon inscribed within a planet's atmosphere, and thinking of "As Above, So Below" and such...

"The overlapping of both triangles [inscribed within the vesica piscis] produces the hexagon, also referred to as the Star of David. The characteristics and symbolism behind this figure are immense. It is also through the natural division of a circle into six parts which allows six circles to fit exactly around the circumference of an equal seventh. John Mitchell has studied the implications of the hexagon at length and further adds that it is "symbolic of the order of the universe..."


A more elaborate rendition of an inscribed hexagon can be found in the geometric Flower of Life or Metatron's Cube.