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Venus orbiter to fly close to super-rotating wind
The Venus Climate Orbiter, called AKATSUKI, aims to find out why blistering winds zip around the planet at speeds of up to 400 kilometres per hour. The upper clouds can circle the planet in four days or even less, and no one knows why. The effect is called “super-rotation”, because the bulk of the atmosphere is rotating much faster than the planet itself. Venus takes 243 Earth days to make one rotation.
Venus orbiter to fly close to super-rotating wind – space – 14 May 2010 – New Scientist.
Plants and spiders ‘compete for the same food supply’
When food was scarce, the team found that the spiders built larger webs to improve their chances of catching prey, but at the expense of the plants.
BBC News – Plants and spiders ‘compete for the same food supply’.
Abstract from Proceedings of the Royal Society B is here.
