When to Use the Venus Atmospheric Superrotation 3D Explorer
Open the Venus Atmospheric Superrotation 3D Explorer when you want the ~243-day solid body and the ~4-day cloud-top layer moving on the same screen at their real ~60x speed ratio, with cloud-top winds published as high as 224 mph / 360 km/h.
Sessions this explorer fits
Students learning that a planet's atmosphere can move dozens of times faster than the ground beneath it, teachers contrasting the roughly 243-day solid-body spin against the roughly 4-day cloud circuit with one slider, and readers who want the published wind-speed numbers - 224 mph / 360 km/h at cloud-top versus about 4 mph / 6.5 km/h at the surface - all get a direct answer here.
Sessions this explorer does not fit
Sessions this page does not fit are studying Venus's own backward spin direction and day length by itself, which is on the Venus Retrograde Rotation 3D Explorer; studying why Venus's surface is so hot, which is on the Venus Runaway Greenhouse 3D Explorer; or a general circulation model that computes winds, pressure, or heat transport, since this page only plays back the two independently measured rotation periods on one shared clock. Walk through the controls in the step-by-step guide.
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