Venus: Atmospheric Motion and Structure from Mariner 10 Pictures

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Mar 1974

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1974sci...183.1307m&link_type=abstract

Science, Volume 183, Issue 4131, pp. 1307-1315

Physics

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The Mariner 10 television cameras imaged the planet Venus in the visible and near ultraviolet for a period of 8 days at resolutions ranging from 100 meters to 130 kilometers. The general pattern of the atmospheric circulation in the upper tropospheric/lower stratospheric region is displayed in the pictures. Atmospheric flow is symmetrical between north and south hemispheres. The equatorial motions are zonal (east-west) at approximately 100 meters per second, consistent with the previously inferred 4-day retrograde rotation. Angular velocity increases with latitude. The subsolar region, and the region downwind from it, show evidence of large-scale convection that persists in spite of the main zonal motion. Dynamical interaction between the zonal motion and the relatively stationary region of convection is evidenced by bowlike waves.

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