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Venus Cloud Patterns
Photo: Cloud patterns on Venus
WALLPAPER
The Galileo spacecraft snapped this colorized image of Venus in February 1990 at a range of almost 1.7 million miles (2.7 million kilometers). The sulfuric clouds swirling over the planet are akin to fair weather clouds on Earth.
Photograph courtesy JPL

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