Cloud structure on the dark side of Venus
Abstract
Observations of the dark side of the planet Venus at infrared wavelengths between 1.5 and 2.5 µm have shown it to be anomalously bright in portions of this waveband, and to exhibit structured cloud patterns whose rotation period is longer than that of any other clouds.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- January 1984
- DOI:
- 10.1038/307222a0
- Bibcode:
- 1984Natur.307..222A
- Keywords:
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- Infrared Astronomy;
- Infrared Spectra;
- Venus Clouds;
- Infrared Imagery;
- Planetary Rotation;
- Radiative Transfer;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration; Venus;
- VENUS;
- CLOUDS;
- STRUCTURE;
- DARK SIDE;
- OBSERVATIONS;
- INFRARED;
- WAVELENGTHS;
- ANOMALIES;
- BRIGHTNESS;
- PATTERNS;
- PERIODS;
- ROTATION;
- PROCEDURE;
- SPECTRA;
- RADIATION