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Venus has been spectacular in the evening sky lately, the brighter of a pair of stars seen at dusk (the other is Jupiter). In this mosaic of images from the Venus Express orbiter, we see the planet as viewed in infrared (shown here as red) and ultraviolet light.

The bright areas on the infrared side represent the temperatures at the cloud tops (dark regions are cooler). The oval feature is the giant eye of the vortex at the planet’s south pole. The structure measures about 2000 km across, rotating around the pole in about two-and-a-half days. The atmosphere rotates counterclockwise in this view.

Sent by: Venus Express | From: Venus | Released: December, 2008 | Credit: ESA/MPS/DLR/IDA
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by ridingwithrobots at https://flickr.com/photos/22592003@N05/3083434398. It was reviewed on 14 December 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0.

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