"A hostile atmosphere surrounds our sister planet Venus. The air is
thick, made mostly of carbon dioxide, with a touch of nitrogen and sulfuric acid, and it rotates around the planet at breakneck speeds.
Venus takes 243 Earth days to complete a single rotation, while its atmosphere whisks around the planet in just four Earth days, but why this is so remains unclear.
Oddly enough, they also found winds are faster in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere.....the researchers then determined how winds travel in the north-south direction: While previous studies had found that clouds tend to drift toward the poles during the day, the new observations reveal that this tendency occasionally reverses at night, when the clouds sometimes move equatorward instead."
Sky&Telescope
As for the "why"...it's because it obviously serves a purpose that our finite minds have yet to figure out....Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things,... Isaiah 40:26
Venus takes 243 Earth days to complete a single rotation, while its atmosphere whisks around the planet in just four Earth days, but why this is so remains unclear.
Oddly enough, they also found winds are faster in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere.....the researchers then determined how winds travel in the north-south direction: While previous studies had found that clouds tend to drift toward the poles during the day, the new observations reveal that this tendency occasionally reverses at night, when the clouds sometimes move equatorward instead."
Sky&Telescope
As for the "why"...it's because it obviously serves a purpose that our finite minds have yet to figure out....Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things,... Isaiah 40:26
