Giant Pattern Discovered in the Clouds of Planet Venus (2 of 2) (IMAGE)

Kobe University

Giant Pattern Discovered in the Clouds of Planet Venus (2 of 2)

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Figure 2: The formation mechanism for the planetary-scale streak structure. The giant vortexes caused by Rossby waves (left) are tilted by the high-latitude jet streams and stretch (right). Within the stretched vortexes, the convergence zone of the streak structure is formed, a downflow occurs, and the lower clouds become thin. Venus rotates in a westward direction, so the jet streams also blow west.

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