Venus’s Southern Polar Vortex Reveals Precessing Circulation

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Apr 2011

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Science, Volume 332, Issue 6029, pp. 577- (2011).

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Initial images of Venus’s south pole by the Venus Express mission have shown the presence of a bright, highly variable vortex, similar to that at the planet’s north pole. Using high-resolution infrared measurements of polar winds from the Venus Express Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) instrument, we show the vortex to have a constantly varying internal structure, with a center of rotation displaced from the geographic south pole by ~3 degrees of latitude and that drifts around the pole with a period of 5 to 10 Earth days. This is indicative of a nonsymmetric and varying precession of the polar atmospheric circulation with respect to the planetary axis.

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