{"id":3927690,"date":"2026-08-27T08:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/venuss-mysterious-clouds-may-hide-an-exceptionally-strong-light-absorber\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:03:50","slug":"venuss-mysterious-clouds-may-hide-an-exceptionally-strong-light-absorber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/venuss-mysterious-clouds-may-hide-an-exceptionally-strong-light-absorber\/","title":{"rendered":"Venus&#8217;s mysterious clouds may hide an exceptionally strong light absorber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Venus appears pale yellow in visible light, but ultraviolet images reveal dramatic dark and bright patterns moving with the planet&#8217;s upper sulfuric acid clouds. Scientists have known about these markings for roughly a century, yet the chemical identity of the material responsible\u2014the &#8220;unknown absorber&#8221;\u2014remains unresolved.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-venus-mysterious-clouds-exceptionally-strong.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venus appears pale yellow in visible light, but ultraviolet images reveal dramatic dark and bright patterns moving with the planet&#8217;s upper sulfuric acid clouds. Scientists have known about these markings for roughly a century, yet the chemical identity of the material responsible\u2014the &#8220;unknown absorber&#8221;\u2014remains unresolved. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}