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Atmospheric science looks to Venus

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Making sense of exoplanet observations requires better understanding of terrestrial atmospheres in our solar system, especially for Venus. We need to not just intermittently explore, but continuously monitor these atmospheres — like we do for Earth.

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Fig. 1: The lower clouds on the night side of Venus as viewed by the IR2 camera on the Akatsuki spacecraft.

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  1. Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

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  2. NASA Participating Scientist with JAXA’s Akatsuki mission, Tokyo, Japan

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