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You’d think centripetal forces would make it round, but the hexagon forms because of faster winds colliding with slower winds around it, creating a stable wave pattern. Saturn’s spin and fluid dynamics lock it into shape. Here an example on polygon formation in fluids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6L0vKP1_m4&t=105s
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