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To: SunkenCiv
...and why wind speeds greatly exceed the planet's rotation speed.

I'm guessing the difference in temperature from the light and dark side causes a concurrent difference in gas pressures. The denser, cooler "air" rushes to fill the pressure differential of the warmer, thinner "air".

10 posted on 06/07/2016 7:33:28 AM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumpers sticker on your car might just as well say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: raybbr

The wind velocity at the surface is vanishingly small (under 1 meter per second, less than 2 mph), and velocity doesn’t rise until miles of altitude (not Earthly at all); for Venus’ atmosphere is also opaque to sunlight, to the extent that zero sunlight reaches the surface; and the axial rotation of the planet is very slow, and retrograde.

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/venusfact.html


17 posted on 06/07/2016 11:05:20 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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