Venus Express
Jun 28 2006, Irani

It whirls in the atmosphere above Venus’ South Pole – it is an amazingly bizarre double vortex, found by a new mission to the planet. Thanks to the unmanned Venus Express spacecraft for spotting this amazing phenomenon in the planet.

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