New cloud morphologies discovered on the Venus's night during Akatsuki
arXiv:1905.08913 · doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2019.05.026
Abstract
During the years 2016 to 2018, the instruments Akatsuki/IR2 (JAXA) and IRTF/SpeX (NASA) acquired a large set of images at 1.74, 2.26 and 2.32 μm to study the nightside mid-to-lower clouds (48-60 km) of Venus. Here we summarize the rich variety of cloud morphologies apparent in these images: from frequent wave packets and billows caused by shear instabilities, to features reported decades ago like the circum-equatorial belts, bright blotches and equatorial troughs, and previously unseen features like dark spots, sharp dark streaks at mid latitudes and fully-developed vortices.
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