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Hurricane winds on Venus speeds up to 370 kilometers per hour

infallible eye Venus Express, the European Space Agency (ESA, in English), which monitors the planet Venus the closest in size to the Earth is actually a detective who watches and gets into the atmosphere. Venus is the equivalent of Dante's hell: there is so much carbon dioxide in its atmosphere, the super-greenhouse effect does that lead to melt on its surface.

pressure one would have to stand still there is ninety times greater than Earth's. Now the probe has provided the data to a English researcher, Agustin Sanchez-Lavega, and his team for build a more complete picture and in three dimensions so thick that atmosphere, and especially the terrible winds that occur different heights.

probe devices from a distance of 66,000 kilometers, flows have been analyzed at an altitude of between 45 and 70 kilometers above the south pole of this world. And they have made a three-dimensional map on the circulation of these winds, measuring its speed. How? "We looked at the clouds and how they moved" , English researchers said Agustin Sanchez-Lavega of the University of the Basque Country. "By tracking over a long period of time, we have a better idea of \u200b\u200bthe winds that make the clouds move."

Watcher these winds is called VIRTIS spectrometer. And what he revealed is that the currents move in a extraordinarily rapid and violent. Venus is a stormy world. Especially at sunset. "At a latitude ranging from Ecuador to the 50 or 55 degrees south, the wind speed varies greatly , from 370 miles per hour at an altitude of 210 kilometers to 210 kilometers per hour at altitudes of about 45 to 47 kilometers, " indicated that expert English.

At latitudes higher than 65 degrees, the wind patterns are the characteristic vortex of hurricanes, in which clouds are pushed into a more regular rate , regardless of the height at which they are located. And in the south pole, is a vortex that has a width of 2,000 km, and, in the words of Giuseppe Picioni, one of the principal investigators of VIRTIS is "like you see when you remove the plug from the bathtub home " (assuming that the bath is full of water, of course).

Clouds have acted as informers of the Venusian atmosphere furious are not water vapor, but tiny droplets of sulfuric acid, along with other aerosols. form a very thick, between 45 and 70 miles from height, which is responsible for the high temperatures of Venus on the surface of about 460 degrees Celsius. Sanchez-Lavega published these findings in the journal Geophysical Research Letter Journal.