Image of Venus at a wavelength of 2.3 micrometres obtained with IRIS2 on the AAT on Jul 26th 2007. The image shows cloud structure on the night side of Venus. The sulfuric acid clouds are seen silhouetted against the hot lower atmosphere that glows at this infrared wavelength. Bright regions are holes in the cloud where we can see deep into the atmosphere of Venus.

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