Space Suite

Via Universe Today, I saw this sweet little video by visual effects artist Lucas Green: "Space Suite". He took NASA images from Cassini, Hubble, and more, applied a few simple 3-D tricks to them, and created something pretty dang amazing. He gives details on his blog on how he created the effects. It's all really cool, but I was particularly impressed with how he animated the hexagonal wind system at Saturn's north pole. The shape seems totally counterintuitive, but it's a natural outcome o...