Venus south polar vortex not so stable!!!!!!!

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EarthlingX found this fascinating article by Emily Lakdawalla.


Venus: Not so neat and tidy as we thought. Emily Lakdawalla.
Sep. 23, 2010 | 10:12 PDT | 17:12 UTC

When Pioneer Venus visited our sister planet in 1979, it found an atmospheric feature called a "dipole" near Venus' north pole -- a pair of eddies swirling and rotating around each other as Venus rotated. When ESA's Venus Express arrived in 2006, it obser............

Venus: Not so neat & tidy as we first thought.

Fascinating stuff, Thank You EarthlingX.

Andrew Brown.

 

[Couerl]

Nice read, thanks.

 

[marsbug]

I always think that Venus doesn't get its fair share of the limelight, and fascinating things like this keep me happy- thank you very much. Venus atmosphere being an ocean of supercritical CO2 more than an atmosphere like ours the southern polar vortex is more like huge whirlpool any way, kinda scary.