Take the Venusian vortex tour

Thomas Ashby, Calgary — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:45:36 GMT

That animation shows an very lame hurricane. The cloud structure is 2000 Kms across and moves rather slowly. My idea is that it isn't a hurricane at all or storm in the sense of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. A vortex is just that..something that is swirly. In this case the swirl is probably comparable to what can happen on earth in some way. Maybe a 2000 km wide Katrina??

Take the Venusian vortex tour

Joseph Basile, Worcester, MA — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:20:47 GMT

Thomas,

If that storm has comparable wind speeds to Katrina, than it is certainly not a lame storm. Venus' atmosphere is somewhere around 10x thicker than Earths, which means those winds would pack an incredible wallop!

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Thomas Ashby, Calgary — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:30:16 GMT

well certainly in earthly terms it isn't lame. A 1200 mile wide Katrina on earth would destroy a good chunk of humanity and what not but on Venus regular atmospheric winds can be hundreds of mph. That vortex is certainly a powerful thing and it would be good to understand Venusion weather systems.

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Caroline, Newark, Delaware — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:08:21 GMT

I have to agree that in my opinion this Venus vortex does not look like a regular hurricane to me. All I see is that the gasses on Venus are forming a swirling mass. But excuse me if you don't agree with me because I'm only a teenage girl. Astronomy and other categories of science interest me.