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Space programs and missions · A guided course
Recover a planetary observatory and follow a world of moving clouds
Explore Venus weather, Akatsuki’s five-year recovery and the evidence behind atmospheric discoveries. Practice motion calculations, read spectral images and use archived observations after the spacecraft’s operations ended.
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Figure 6 from Nakamura et al. (2016), showing early Venus-orbit observations in December 2015: (a) IR1, (b) UVI and (c) LIR. The full published grayscale triptych, including the partial disk in panel a, is retained. These are different spectral observations, not natural-color views or a simultaneous wind measurement. Nakamura et al. (2016), CC BY 4.0. Delivery copies resize or change format only.
Nakamura et al. (2016), Earth, Planets and Space · Image source · CC BY 4.0Your place in the bigger picture
Build on familiar ideas, then choose a direction to explore next. Every course remains open.
From a falling feather to worlds circling a star.
Turn patterns of light into evidence about places we cannot touch.
Japan’s Akatsuki Venus climate mission
Recover a planetary observatory and follow a world of moving clouds
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