{"paper":{"title":"Morphology and dynamics of Venus's middle clouds with Akatsuki/IR1","license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":["physics.ao-ph"],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.EP","authors_text":"A. Wesley, E. Kardasis, J. Peralta, M. Narita, N. Iwagami, P. Miles, R. Hueso, S\\'anchez-Lavega, S. Takagi, T. Imamura, Y. J. Lee","submitted_at":"2019-03-07T12:45:50Z","abstract_excerpt":"The Venusian atmosphere is covered by clouds with super-rotating winds whose accelerating mechanism is still not well understood. The fastest winds, occurring at the cloud tops ($\\sim$70 km height), have been studied for decades thanks to their visual contrast in dayside ultraviolet images. The middle clouds ($\\sim$50-55 km) can be observed at near-infrared wavelengths (800-950 nm), although with very low contrast. Here we present the first extensive analysis of their morphology and motions at lower latitudes along 2016 with 900-nm images from the IR1 camera onboard Akatsuki. The middle clouds"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1903.02883","kind":"arxiv","version":1},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}