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A Vortex Spins Around Venus' South Pole

Jun. 27, 2006 | 16:01 PDT | 23:01 UTC
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This morning I was delighted to see that the Venus Express science team had released a massive pile of image data from their first orbit of the planet in mid-April. These are the images I saw during the Venus Exploration Analysis Group meeting that I was so excited about but was unable, then, to show you. Anyway, I've posted a news article containing the new Venus Express images, and also created a permanent home for them here. They had initially posted them in a variety of orientations so I rotated everything (but the animation) so that the Sun was at the left, which makes it a little easier to compare the different sets of images. Here's one of the six sets of images they released:

Venus' south pole
Venus' south pole
April 19, 2006
Range: 190,000 kilometers
Credit: ESA / VIRTIS / INAF-IASF/ Obs. de Paris-LESIA

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