This view from NASA's Cassini mission is the highest-resolution view of the unique six-sided jet stream at Saturn's north pole known as 'the hexagon.'

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NASA is no stranger to brilliant space images, but the space agency's latest may redefine the way we view Saturn.

NASA'sCassini spacecraft of Saturn's hexagon—the 20,000 mile wide jet stream swirling around Saturn's north pole that sports a massive hurricane-like storm at its core.

"The hexagon is just a current of air, and weather features out there that share similarities to this are notoriously turbulent and unstable," said Andrew Ingersoll, a Cassini imaging team member at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, in a NASA press release. "A hurricane on Earth typically lasts a week, but this has been here for decades -- and who knows -- maybe centuries."

The Cassini spacecraft, first launched in 1997, arrived at Saturn in 2004, but only recent solar developments have made hexagonal imagery possible.

Saturn's northern Spring began in 2009, slowly draping the planet's northern section with sunlight. In 2012, that sunlight finally reached the core of the hexagon, allowing for the latest batch of imagery to take place.

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Scientists hope that the Cassini's imagery will help them better understand how the hexagon interacts with sunlight, especially as lighting conditions improve in the coming years.

"As we approach Saturn's summer solstice in 2017, lighting conditions over its north pole will improve, and we are excited to track the changes that occur both inside and outside the hexagon boundary," Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said in the release.

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