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Devac  ·  1885 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Space is Weird | Saturn's Hexagonal Polar Vortex

Plus thermodynamics at those conditions and scales are a lot less straightforward. On the one hand, intuitively, everything would heat up from below due to a combination of fluid friction and pressure instabilities, and lose energy via IR radiation during the long, rising adiabatic expansion. On the other hand, fluid mechanics is rarely intuitive.

    She is definitely not a planetary scientist, I'll say that. Her deep space stuff, however, is fantastic.

Seems so. She frequented on Brady Harran's Sixty Symbols and Deep Sky Videos if memory serves. I liked those a lot.