A new look at Venus with Akatsuki

[geolindon]

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2018/0116-a-new-look-at-venus-with-akatsuki.html

"Editor's note: This blog post is a collaboration between an image processing enthusiast (Damia Bouic) and three professional scientists (Thomas Widemann, Emmanuel Marcq, and Colin Wilson). Bouic has dived into a data set and processed images, and Widemann, Marcq, and Wilson have interpreted them."

Very C O O O O L,

Images posted some time back by ags- Phil Miles showed some of these broad features.
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[bigjoe]

Fantastic heat images from night side Lindon.

Looks like its a hideous place to be; even if future explorers and probes had a way to survive on it for any length of time..sulphuric acid dropelets and vortices sound not to pleasant.

bigjoe.

[geolindon]

indeed Joe,

a tropical Australian summer heatwave is frigid in comparison:) - until we let our greenhouse gases get into a positive feedback loop.

if i was off to Venus i'd be a bit relieved if my craft missed and had to orbit the sun for a coupla years to get back to Venus :lol:

also there is a great article in the current Australian S&T explaining Juno's early findings of Jupiter's upper atmosphere. the bands that fascinate us are relatively very thin n superficial.

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