Starship Asterisk*

I stand corrected by Firmament. It's from Ezekiel.

The "wheels within wheels" shows rather obviously that it is inspired by the visions of the prophet Daniel.

Uhh, that's about 30 below F. Surprised battery powered cameras would work at that temperature.

I too came here to suggest that that polar structure reminded me strongly of Saturn's polar hexagon. Remembering that convection in a fluid will form hexagonal cells, has anybody ever discussed the possibility that both could be convection phenomena? But the more I look at the photograph, the more I...