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Venus Vortices Go for Chaotic Multi-Storey Strolls Around the Poles
A detailed study of Venus'
South Polar Vortex shows a
much more chaotic and
unpredictable cyclone than
previously thought. The
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Cassini Spies Bright Venus from Saturn Orbit
A distant world gleaming in
sunlight, Earth's twin
planet, Venus, shines like a
bright beacon in images
taken by NASA's Cassini
spacecraft in orbit around
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Mariner 2's Encounter With Venus: NASA Celebrates 50 Years of Planetary Exploration
Fifty years ago on a
mid-December day, NASA's
Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed
close to the shrouded planet
Venus, marking the first
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Have Venusian Volcanoes Been Caught in the Act?
Six years of observations by
the European Space Agency's
Venus Express have shown
large changes in the sulfur
dioxide content of the
planet's atmosphere, and one
... > full story
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Snap the Stars to See Your Photo on ESA Portal
November 16, 2012 — Have you taken an interesting astronomical photo this year? From planets and moons to the Sun, stars and galaxies, we’d like you to send us your images to feature as our Space Science Image of ... > full story -
Probing the Mystery of the Venus Fly Trap's Botanical Bite
November 16, 2012 — Plants lack muscles, yet in only a tenth of a second, the meat-eating Venus fly trap hydrodynamically snaps its leaves shut to trap an insect meal. This astonishingly rapid display of botanical ... > full story -
A Curious Cold Layer in the Atmosphere of Venus
October 2, 2012 — Venus Express has spied a surprisingly cold region high in the planet's atmosphere that may be frigid enough for carbon dioxide to freeze out as ice or ... > full story -
Venus Transit Movie Shows Perspective in Viewing Our Solar System
September 28, 2012 — New movies of the transit of Venus on June 6, 2012, viewed from two different locations on Earth, clearly show the parallax effects that have made Venus transits so important historically. The ... > full story -
The Mysterious Arc of Venus
June 4, 2012 — When Venus transits the sun on June 5-6, an armada of spacecraft and ground-based telescopes will be on the lookout for something elusive and, until recently, unexpected: the arc of ... > full story -
RHESSI Will Use Venus Transit to Improve Measurements of the Sun's Diameter
June 4, 2012 — With the new data obtained during the Venus transit on June 5-6, 2012, the RHESSI team hopes to improve the knowledge of the exact shape of the sun and provide a more accurate measure of the diameter ... > full story -
Venus Transit: June 5-6, 2012
June 1, 2012 — On June 5, 2012, at 6:03 PM EDT, the planet Venus will do something it has done only seven times since the invention of the telescope: cross in front of the sun. This transit is among the rarest of ... > full story -
Venus: Planetary Portrait of Inner Beauty
June 1, 2012 — A Venus transit across the face of the sun is a relatively rare event -- occurring in pairs with more than a century separating each pair. There have been all of 53 transits of Venus across the sun ... > full story -
Why Earth Is Not an Ice Ball: Possible Explanation for Faint Young Sun Paradox
May 30, 2012 — More than 2 billion years ago, a much fainter sun should have left the Earth as an orbiting ice ball. Why we avoided the deep freeze is a question that has puzzled scientists, but one astronomer ... > full story -
The Transit of Venus: June 5-6, 2012
May 28, 2012 — Many astronomers and members of the public in Britain will be getting up early on the morning of June 6, so they can see (using precautions to avoid permanent eye damage) the final Transit of Venus ... > full story
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