article_snippet: This [atmospheric] wave is dragged by the winds of Venus, so if they are constant the wave should round the planet without getting deformed,
article_snippet: This is why the wave gets deformed.
article_snippet: He added that the idea was not entirely new - but He theory was the first that explained a new type of atmospheric wave, different to anything seen on Earth.
article_snippet: Using the new type of wave, He said they could predict the vertical structure of the Y feature, and show that it was trapped about the altitude where the winds are strongest.
article_snippet: A wave with the size of the Y must play a key role in explaining why the atmosphere rotates sixty times faster than the surface, so it was crucial to understand it,’ said Dr Peralta in a release.