Venus' South Polar Vortex

looks like there is a vortex over the southern pole in venus



astronomy now -

Since Venus Express' arrival at our neighbouring planet in 2006, the VIRTIS (Visible and InfraRed Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) instrument has been collecting data on the temperature of the planet's atmosphere and cloud decks, finding that the polar region's dynamics follow rules of their own.

A north polar vortex was observed as early as the 1979 Pioneer Venus mission, but Venus Express soon found its double-eyed southern hemisphere twin. Covering a diameter of around 3,000 kilometres, it rotates almost like a solid body. As the Venus Express mission progressed, however, a variety of vortex shapes have been seen, with the double-eye feature now having apparently disappeared.

"We had ironically observed it in a dipole configuration right at the beginning of the mission, but we soon discovered that this was just a coincidence, since the dipole in reality is not a stable feature on Venus but just one shape among others," says Giuseppe Piccioni.

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the twin hurricanes are gone?

they thought they were there forever.


pretty cool.

Amazing!
I wonder why are most of the planets in our solar system having weather issues?
Maybe global warming is more like galaxy warming!

Something is up, and we will live to see it. hopefully!

reply to post by TheOneEyedProphet


thats funny that you mention that, i believe nassim haramein was one to say the same thing, ive also heard that thers some kind of galactic pull because of the alignment comming up?

that is true, but not only him, there seems to be some debate between astronomers and general observers regarding the true nature of the changes in our galactic corner!

BTW regarding Mr Haramein's understanding of the fractal nature of "reality" he means more than he is allowed to say! if everything is a reiteration of the same elements rearranged according to existential status, then if the planets change it must mean that the whole is changing, as is above so is below!

We can barely understand what really goes on in the macro and micro levels, we can barely come to grips with our immediate "reality"

reply to post by fallinstar


The picture looks like a camera being pushed down someones esophagus

Thats pretty cool though, S&F.