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Why does the north poll of Jupiter form hexagonal shapes in the clouds of Jupiter. Trying to see if people got brains

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They believe that vortexes occur at the planet's north pole because of atmospheric flows deep within the gas giant, and that these vortexes pinch an intense horizontal jet near the equator—which is what warps the storm into a hexagon

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