South polar features on Venus similar to those near the north pole

Venus has no seasons, slow rotation and a very massive atmosphere, which is mainly carbon dioxide with clouds primarily of sulphuric acid droplets. Infrared observations by previous missions to Venus revealed a bright 'dipole' feature surrounded by a cold 'collar' at its north po...

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Main Authors: Piccioni, Giuseppe, Drossart, Pierre, Sanchez-Lavega, A., Hueso, R., Taylor, F. W., Wilson, C. F., Grassi, D., Zasova, L., Moriconi, M., Adriani, A., Lebonnois, Sébastien, Coradini, A., Bézard, B., Angrilli, F., Virtis Venus Express, T., Arnold, G., Baines, K. H., Bellucci, G., Benkhoff, J., Bibring, J. P., Blecka, M. I., Blanco, A., Carlson, R. W., Di Lellis, A., Encrenaz, T., Erard, S., Fonti, S., Formisano, V., Fouchet, T., Garcia, R., Haus, R., Helbert, J., Ignatiev, N. I., Irwin, P. G. J., Langevin, Y., Lopez-Valverde, M. A., Luz, D., Marinangeli, L., Rodin, A. V., Orofino, V., Roos-Serote, M. C., Saggin, B., Stam, D. M., Titov, D., Visconti, G., Zambelli, M., Ammannito, Eleonora, Barbis, Alessandra, Berlin, Rainer, Luiz, D., Bettanini, Carlo, Boccaccini, Angelo, Bonnello, Guillaume, Bouye, Marc, Capaccioni, Fabrizio, Cardesin Moinelo, Alejandro, Carraro, Francesco, Cherubini, Giovanni, Cosi, Massimo, Dami, Michele, De Nino, Maurizio, Del Vento, Davide, Di Giampietro, Marco, Donati, Alessandro, Dupuis, Olivier, Espinasse, Sylvie, Fabbri, Anna, Veltroni, Iacopo Ficai, Fave, Agnes, Filacchione, Gianrico, Garceran, Katia, Ghomchi, Yamina, Giustini, Maurizio, Gondet, Brigitte, Hello, Yann, Henry, Florence, Hofer, Stefan, Huntzinger, Gerard, Kachlicki, Juergen, Knoll, René, Driss, Kouach, Mazzoni, Alessandro, Melchiorri, Riccardo, Mondello, Giuseppe, Monti, Francesco, Neumann, Christian, Nuccilli, Fabrizio, Parisot, Jerome, Pompei, Carlo, Pasqui, Claudio, Reess, Jean-Michel, Perferi, Stefano, Rivet, Jean-Pierre, Peter, Gisbert, Romano, Antonio, Piacentino, Alain, Russ, Natalie, Santoni, Massimo, Scarpelli, Adelmo, Semery, Alain, Soufflot, Alain, Stefanovitch, Douchane, Suetta, Enrico, Tarchi, Fabio, Tonetti, Nazzareno, Tosi, Federico, Be' Zard, B., Ulmer, Bernd, A.-L., Et
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Published: Zenodo 2007
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