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A kitchen-sink physics effect may explain Venus’s giant atmospheric wave
A team led by the University of Tokyo says a hydraulic jump, the same abrupt transition seen when water spreads across a sink, can explain a massive recurring disturbance in Venus’s cloud layers.
Key Takeaways
- A University of Tokyo-led team linked a recurring Venus cloud disturbance to a hydraulic jump.
- The mechanism begins with an unstable Kelvin wave in the lower cloud layer.
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