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Earth’s weather satellites just spent 10 years watching Venus — here’s what they found

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus. By stitching 437 images together, scientists tracked daily thermal tides and shifting planetary waves in the planet’s cloud tops, even flagging calibration quirks in past spacecraft data.

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