Giant Pattern Discovered in the Clouds of Planet Venus (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Giant Pattern Discovered in the Clouds of Planet Venus (1 of 2)

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Figure 1: (left) the lower clouds of Venus observed with the Akatsuki IR2 camera (after edge-emphasis process). The bright parts show where the cloud cover is thin. You can see the planetary-scale streak structure within the yellow dotted lines. (right) The planetary-scale streak structure reconstructed by AFES-Venus simulations. The bright parts show a strong downflow. (Partial editing of image in the Nature Communications paper. CC BY 4.0)

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