More Weird Stuff on Venus

As a side note, I'm currently reading Derek Kunsken's The House of Styx, which is serialized in Analog but also available for purchase. Which also has some very strange things happening on Venus...which has been settled by French Canadians!

But the actual weird thing on Venus now is weather. Observers have found an atmospheric wave deep in the atmosphere that's just...circling the planet. And has been for years. It's like a front going around and around the Earth.

And we have no idea what's causing it. Venus' thick atmosphere may be acting almost more like a fluid than a gas. It could be a so-called Kelvin wave, which is a gravity wave trapped at the equator. We get those on Earth, but they don't last for decades.

It might have something to do with how Venus' atmosphere rotates so much faster than the planet.

Because Venus is just plain weird.

(Or maybe Earth is...)