For 60 years, Venus’s atmosphere has baffled scientists — its winds race around the planet over 60 times faster than Venus itself spins. Now, a groundbreaking study reveals the true engine behind this superrotation: a powerful once-per-day thermal tide triggered by the Sun’s heating.
Using nearly two decades of data from ESA’s Venus Express and JAXA’s Akatsuki orbiters, researchers discovered that diurnal heating pushes momentum toward the planet’s cloud tops, sustaining extreme wind speeds at ~70 km altitude. This finding overturns older theories and finally unifies decades of scattered clues.
In this video, we break down what this discovery means for Venus, why it changes planetary science, and how it could help us understand superrotation on worlds far beyond our own.
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