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Venus puts on variety show among its cloud-tops
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
The results, which have been presented at the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019 in Geneva, provide new insights into the mystery of why the Venusian atmosphere rotate...
Mysterious Cloud 'Absorbers' Seen to Drive Venusian Albedo, Climate
Aug 27, 2019 (SPX)
Venus is much hotter - in the neighborhood of 860 degrees Fahrenheit (460 degrees Celsius) at the surface - due to a runaway greenhouse effect caused by a thick...
Launch of Russia-US space probe to Venus possible in 2027
Mar 20, 2019 (Sputnik)
"The launch windows in 2026, at the end of 2027, in 2029 and 2031 are being discussed. Even if the financing starts this year, we are missing the first date, so...
Giant pattern discovered in the clouds of planet Venus
Jan 11, 2019 (SPX)
Venus is often called Earth's twin because of their similar size and gravity, but the climate on Venus is very different. Venus rotates in the opposite directio...
Why sending humans to Venus is a brilliant idea
Oct 17, 2018 (The Conversation)
Today, Venus is unlikely to be a dream destination for aspiring space tourists. As revealed by numerous missions in the last few decades, rather than being a pa...
'After Venus We Can't Exclude Possibility of Other Planets Hosting Life'
Apr 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
Sputnik: Can you tell us in more detail how you noticed the dark patches in the clouds? Sanjay Limaye*: The patches actually have been known for a long time, mo...
Planetary Spectroscopy Laboratory will create a hotspot for understanding Venus
Feb 12, 2018 (SPX)
Although Venus is a similar size to Earth and sometimes called its twin planet, it is surrounded by a thick atmosphere of mainly carbon dioxide and clouds of su...
Venus's Mysterious Night Side Revealed
Sep 15, 2017 (ESA)
The study shows that atmosphere on Venus' night side behaves very differently to that on the side of the planet facing the Sun (the 'dayside'), exhibiting unexp...
Equatorial jet in Venusian atmosphere discovered by Akatsuki
Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)
Venus rotates westward with a very low angular speed; it takes 243 Earth days to rotate once. The planet's atmosphere rotates in the same direction but at much ...
A Clockwork Rover for Venus
Aug 28, 2017 (JPL)
A concept inspired by clockwork computers and World War I tanks could one day help us find out. The design is being explored at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
NASA studies CubeSat mission to solve Venusian mystery
Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)
A team of scientists and engineers working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has received funding from the agency's Planetary Scienc...
NASA's Venus Chamber Breaks Record with Completion of 80-day Test
Jul 26, 2017 (SPX)
This new record puts researchers one step closer to understanding the effect a long-duration exposure to Venus' atmosphere has on materials. With this knowledge...
Venus's turbulent atmosphere
Jul 26, 2017 (SPX)
Its atmosphere consists of 96.5 percent carbon dioxide, with surface temperatures of con-stantly about 500 degrees Celsius. Venus is a slowly rotating planet - ...
Researchers find out how bromine fits into Venusian chemistry
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
Since the 1960s, numerous space probes have been sent to Venus. Because 17 out of 24 successful missions were launched by the Soviet Union, scientists dubbed it...
Scientists explain why Venus hosts so few volcanoes
May 30, 2017 (UPI)
New research suggests Venus' pliable, plastic-like crust explains the planet's lack of volcanoes. On Earth, magma pushes through cracks in the planet's solid cr...
Indian Space Research Organisation Starts Work on India's First Venus Mission
Apr 27, 2017 (Sputnik)
"The payload capability of the proposed satellite is likely to be 175 kg with 500W of power. However, these values are to be tuned based on the final configurat...
'I'm Your Venus, I'm Your Fire': Why Earth's Planetary Twin Is So Dangerous
Apr 24, 2017 (Sputnik)
The Soviet Union managed to successfully land eight unmanned spacecrafts on Venus between 1970 and 1982, however the longest any of them lasted on the planet wa...
Meridional wind on Venus was detected for the first time in both hemispheres
Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)
The first scientific evidence on Venus of a wind circulation between the equator and the poles, also named meridional wind, was gathered by an international tea...
NASA Studying Shared Venus Science Objectives with Russian Space Research Institute
Mar 13, 2017 (JPL)
A team of NASA-sponsored scientists will meet with the Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Research Institute (IKI) next week to continue work on a Joint Science...
Recently Active Lava Flows on Eastern Flank of Idunn Mons on Venus
Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)
The European Space Agency's Venus Express mission has provided a great amount of data from the surface and atmosphere of Earth's inner twin planet. Among these ...
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