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Example Venus Monitoring Camera images from Venus Express

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Example Venus Monitoring Camera images from Venus Express Nine images from Venus Express display some of the variety of features visible in Venus' clouds in the VMC data set: global views, atmospheric waves, features that appear dark in the UV, a bright south polar band, thermal emission from the surface, and so on.

ESA / MPS, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany / Bjorn Jonsson

Originally posted with more explanation at unmannedspaceflight.com

Copyright holder: Björn Jónsson

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about August 22, 2010

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