This image of the Venus vortex was acquired a day later (after the previous image). Here the shape of the vortex is stretched out in two opposite directions and is almost hourglass-shaped - this shape is called a dipole. The yellow dot marks the location of the south pole. Credit: ESA/VIRTIS/INAF-IASF/Obs. de Paris-LESIA/Univ. of Oxford

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