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Parker Solar Probe Lines Up for Final Venus Flyby
Sep 11, 2024 (SPX)
Operating on preprogrammed commands, Parker fired its small directional thrusters for about 17 seconds, changing its velocity by less than a mile per hour, and ...
Venus' Mesosphere Shows Sharp Rise in Deuterium to Hydrogen Ratio
Aug 21, 2024 (SPX)
Today, Venus presents a harsh environment, with surface pressures nearly 100 times those on Earth and temperatures soaring to approximately 460 C. Its thick clo...
Venus Geological Features Mirror Early Earth's Continent Formation
Aug 06, 2024 (SPX)
Scientists have identified that Venus' extensive plateaus, called tesserae, might have formed through processes similar to those that created Earth's earliest c...
University of Freiburg Launches Major Initiative in Earth and Planetary Geodynamics
Jul 18, 2024 (SPX)
The initiative aims to incorporate planetary influences into research and teaching by comparing Earth with Venus. Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz, Dean of the Faculty o...
Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA's Magellan Data
May 29, 2024 (JPL)
Direct geological evidence of recent volcanic activity on Venus has been observed for a second time. Scientists in Italy analyzed archival data from NASA's Mage...
Venus' extreme dryness linked to specific atmospheric reactions, study suggests
May 07, 2024 (SPX)
The study focuses on a process called dissociative recombination, where hydrogen atoms are lost from Venus's atmosphere into space. This phenomenon contributes ...
Exploring Venus could redefine search for life in universe
Apr 23, 2024 (SPX)
"Earth is often seen as a model for habitability; however, without comparing it to other planets, we remain unaware of the potential boundaries," stated Stephen...
BepiColombo mission detects escaping gases in Venus's magnetosphere
Apr 12, 2024 (SPX)
Lina Hadid, a CNRS researcher at the Plasma Physics Laboratory (LPP) and lead author of the study, noted, "This is the first observation of positively charged c...
Venus' Clouds Could Harbor Life: MIT Study Finds Amino Acids Stable in Sulfuric Acid
Mar 21, 2024 (SPX)
If it's out there, scientists have assumed that any Venusian cloud inhabitant would look very different from life forms on Earth. That's because the clouds them...
Venus and gravitational wave missions get EU green light
Jan 25, 2024 (AFP)
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will become the first mission to study gravitational waves from space, with a planned 2035 launch on an Ariane 6 r...
Mysterious missing component in the clouds of Venus revealed
Jan 08, 2024 (SPX)
In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers from the University of Cambridge synthesised iron-bearing sulfate minerals that are stable under the h...
Venus had Earth-like plate tectonics billions of years ago, study suggests
Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)
Writing in Nature Astronomy, a team of scientists led by Brown University researchers describes using atmospheric data from Venus and computer modeling to show ...
Does lightning strike on Venus? Maybe not, study suggests
Oct 04, 2023 (SPX)
In new research, space physicists at the University of Colorado Boulder have jumped into a surprisingly long-running debate in solar system science: Does lightn...
Venus on Earth: NASA's VERITAS Science Team Studies Volcanic Iceland
Sep 20, 2023 (JPL)
To lay the groundwork for the mission, members of the international VERITAS science team traveled to Iceland for a two-week campaign in August to use the volcan...
Venus Parker Solar Probe toward record-setting flights around the Sun
Aug 24, 2023 (SPX)
The mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, kept in contact with the spacecraft during the flyby thro...
Course correction keeps Parker Solar Probe on track for Venus flyby
Aug 11, 2023 (SPX)
Operating on preprogrammed commands from mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, Parker fired its small thrus...
What keeps Venus looking so young? A powerful jolt early on, perhaps
Jul 31, 2023 (SPX)
Mars, for instance, and Earth's moon, bear the craggy scars and craters from the bombardment of bolides - bright meteors that hit the surface as fireballs - ove...
SwRI-led team finds ancient, high-energy impacts could have fueled Venus volcanism
Jul 21, 2023 (SPX)
"One of the mysteries of the inner solar system is that, despite their similar size and bulk density, Earth and Venus operate in strikingly distinct ways, parti...
Venus atmosphere in 3D prepares future observations of rocky exoplanets
Jun 15, 2023 (SPX)
A team of researchers chose a planet 106 light-years away, with 1.37 times the diameter of the Earth, discovered in 2022, to present the first simulation in thr...
Scientists share 'comprehensive' map of volcanoes on Venus - all 85,000 of them
Mar 30, 2023 (SPX)
"This paper provides the most comprehensive map of all volcanic edifices on Venus ever compiled," said Byrne, an associate professor of earth and planetary scie...
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