<story><title>Jupiter’s North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/jupiter-s-north-pole-unlike-anything-encountered-in-solar-system</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>krylon</author><text>Ignoring all the fascinating stuff about Jupiter, let me point out this gem: &lt;i&gt;The download of six megabytes of data [...] took one-and-a-half days&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I sometimes like to scare kids by telling them about the time when I surfed the Internet with 14.4 kbit modem, but even that looks incredibly fast compared to the speed of interplanetary data transmission (back then, 6 MiB would have taken me about 2-2.5 hours).&lt;p&gt;(NB that I am not complaining or anything, just pointing out that this is many orders of magnitudes slower than anything one would normally consider a &amp;quot;slow&amp;quot; connection.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Jupiter’s North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System</title><url>https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/jupiter-s-north-pole-unlike-anything-encountered-in-solar-system</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jobu</author><text>&lt;i&gt;“Saturn has a hexagon at the north pole,” said Bolton. “There is nothing on Jupiter that anywhere near resembles that. The largest planet in our solar system is truly unique. We have 36 more flybys to study just how unique it really is.”&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the first I&amp;#x27;ve heard of Saturn&amp;#x27;s hexagon, very interesting: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.space.com&amp;#x2F;30608-mysterious-saturn-hexagon-explained.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.space.com&amp;#x2F;30608-mysterious-saturn-hexagon-explain...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>