Although Venus is a terrestrial planet similar to Earth, its atmospheric circulation is much different and poorly characterized1. Winds at the cloud top have been measured predominantly on the dayside. Prominent poleward drifts have been observed ...
Horinouchi, T.   Hayashi, Y.-Y.   Watanabe, S.   Yamada, M.   Yamazaki, A.   Kouyama, T.   Taguchi, M.   Fukuhara, T.   Takagi, M.   Ogohara, K.   Murakami, S.   Peralta, J.   Limaye, S.S.   Imamura, T.   Nakamura, M.   Sato, T.M.   Satoh, T.   
Science 368(6489) 405-409 2020年4月
Venus has a thick atmosphere that rotates 60 times as fast as the surface, a phenomenon known as super-rotation. We use data obtained from the orbiting Akatsuki spacecraft to investigate how the super-rotation is maintained in the cloud layer, whe...
Imamura, T.   Ando, H.   Tellmann, S.   P{\"a}tzold, M.   H{\"a}usler, B.   Yamazaki, A.   Sato, T.M.   Noguchi, K.   Futaana, Y.   Oschlisniok, J.   Limaye, S.   Choudhary, R.K.   Murata, Y.   Takeuchi, H.   Hirose, C.   Ichikawa, T.   Toda, T.   Tomiki, A.   Abe, T.   Yamamoto, Z.-I.   Noda, H.   Iwata, T.   Murakami, S.-Y.   Satoh, T.   Fukuhara, T.   Ogohara, K.   Sugiyama, K.-I.   Kashimura, H.   Ohtsuki, S.   Takagi, S.   Yamamoto, Y.   Hirata, N.   Hashimoto, G.L.   Yamada, M.   Suzuki, M.   Ishii, N.   Hayashiyama, T.   Lee, Y.J.   Nakamura, M.