Hexagon on Saturn

As far as I know,there are no other naturally occuring hexagons in nature except for ONE place.

Here on Earth (The strangest place in the known universe.) our own Honeybees produce them in their hives and they are seen in the patterns in flower petals.

Peter.

Actually Hexagones are quite common in nature. They are very stable structures. Off the top of my head we get them in convection cells, and of course our Giant's Cause way.

Of course, cystals!

Molecular structures such as The Benzene molecule come to mind as well.

(Wasn't Finn McCool clever the way he designed the Giants Causeway.)

Peter.

Isn't that area of shapes in Nature called fractals?

Isn't that area of shapes in Nature called fractals?

What area of shapes? Hexagons?

Looks freaky.

Could this be caused by temperature variations in the atmosphere? or is this a magnetically caused phenomenon? Why doesn't the planets rotation cause the hexagon to round out? How does a cloud wall like this maintain it's shape? Long lived optical illusion maybe?

They are "standing waves" of some sort I'd hazard a guess.

You get similar symmetrical patterns on the surface of water in a bucket (etc.)which is being vibrated rapidly.

That pattern has been there since the Voyager missions.
A long time for an optical illusion.

Peter.