{"id":96254,"date":"2019-09-15T03:23:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/hubbles-brand-new-image-of-saturn"},"modified":"2019-09-15T03:23:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:23:01","slug":"hubbles-brand-new-image-of-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/hubbles-brand-new-image-of-saturn","title":{"rendered":"Hubble\u2019s Brand New Image of Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/facebook\/videos\/436249643909541?fields=format\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-autoplay=\"true\"><\/div>\n<p>Saturn is so beautiful that astronomers cannot resist using Hubble to take yearly snapshots of the ringed world when it is at its closest distance to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>These images, however, are more than just beauty shots. They reveal a planet with a turbulent, dynamic atmosphere. This year\u2019s Hubble offering, for example, shows that a large storm visible in the 2018 Hubble image in the north polar region has vanished. Smaller storms pop into view like popcorn kernels popping in a microwave oven before disappearing just as quickly. Even the planet\u2019s banded structure reveals subtle changes in color.<\/p>\n<p>But the latest image shows plenty that hasn\u2019t changed. The mysterious six-sided pattern, called the \u201chexagon,\u201d still exists on the north pole. Caused by a high-speed jet stream, the hexagon was first discovered in 1981 by NASA\u2019s Voyager 1 spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturn is so beautiful that astronomers cannot resist using Hubble to take yearly snapshots of the ringed world when it is at its closest distance to Earth. These images, however, are more than just beauty shots. They reveal a planet with a turbulent, dynamic atmosphere. This year\u2019s Hubble offering, for example, shows that a large [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}