Venus: Jet-setting atmosphere

Alain Hauchecorne (1)

1 STRATO - LATMOS

A fast equatorial jet in the Venusian cloud layer has been revealed by the Akatsuki orbiter by tracking cloud movement in near-infrared images. The findings suggest that the Venusian atmosphere is more variable than previously thought.

Keywords: Atmospheric dynamics; Inner planets

Domains: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]; Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR]

Alain Hauchecorne. Venus: Jet-setting atmosphere. Nature Geoscience, 2017, 10 (9), pp.622 - 623. ⟨10.1038/ngeo3022⟩. ⟨insu-01599342⟩