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False colour image of the nightside of Venus captured with the IR2 camera on Akatsuki at 1.735-µm (blue) and 2.26-µm (red) and mix of the two (green). On the nightside of Venus, IR2 observes infrared light coming from the lower atmosphere through clouds, and the shadow of the clouds can be seen in the image. Here, bright and dark are reversed to show clouds in whitish colour.(Credit: JAXA / PLANET-C Project Team)

Akatsuki seeks the source of Venus’s extreme weather

After initially missing its target, Akatsuki now has successfully orbited Venus for more than a year.

Akatsuki returns from the dead

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