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[The Verge] A Japanese spacecraft has spotted a massive gravity wave in Venus’ atmosphere

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The Japanese probe Akatsuki has observed a massive gravity wave in the atmosphere of Venus. This is not the first time such a wave was observed on the Solar System's second planet, but it is the largest ever recorded, stretching just over 6,000 miles from end to end.
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Everybody PANIC
 
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Originally Posted by Mand12 View Post

Worth pointing out that there are gravity waves and gravity waves. Contractions of spacetime due to things like black holes colliding, this is not. It's a meteorological feature.
Gravity waves and Gravitational waves. The latter is the spacetime contractions, the former is an effect of fluid dynamics.

Gravitational waves might be more fundamentally earth shattering, but this is pretty cool none the less.
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Originally Posted by EniGma1987 View Post

Could it have been from violent wind across the surface hitting this mountain range and moving upward?
That was kind of my thoughts, most of the system contains a lot of assumptions anyway.
 
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mothra confirmed!
 
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Originally Posted by Avonosac View Post

That was kind of my thoughts, most of the system contains a lot of assumptions anyway.
but what would've caused that kind of draft to actually push it all the way up to the upper atmosphere?
 
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Originally Posted by Mand12 View Post

Worth pointing out that there are gravity waves and gravity waves. Contractions of spacetime due to things like black holes colliding, this is not. It's a meteorological feature.
Just a bit of a misnomer, then? I didn't know that a meteorological "gravity wave" actually existed. Today I learned! Awesome.
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Originally Posted by Cakewalk_S View Post

UP next: Concerns over greenhouse gasses on Venus
This made me chuckle. I appreciate your sarcasm!
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Originally Posted by tp4tissue View Post

Akatsuki ??

So they quit earth and went to channel them giant pokemons on venus eh ?
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Yea, I really tried to not make a tobi / pain joke, I really did. As OP I feel like I had a slight responsibility to keep it professional.

Slight.

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Originally Posted by DNMock View Post

Run-a-way Greenhouse Gas theory officially disproven. Direct observation of too many fireball jutsu's confirmed!
Sasuke Uchiha blame confirmed.
 
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