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  Venus Express En Route To Probe The Planet's Hidden Mysteries

  November 9, 2005 — The European spacecraft Venus Express has been successfully placed into a trajectory that will take it on its journey from Earth towards its destination of the planet Venus, which it will reach next ... > full story
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  Venus Mission May Hold Surprises For Scientists And Public

  November 2, 2005 — University of Colorado at Boulder planetary scientist Larry Esposito, a member of the European Space Agency's Venus Express science team, believes the upcoming mission to Earth's "evil twin" planet ... > full story
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  Venus Express Mated With Upper Stage

  October 14, 2005 — Preparations for ESA's Venus Express mission passed a new milestone when the spacecraft was attached to its Fregat upper-stage rocket. The mission is now only two weeks away from launch on 26 ... > full story
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  NASA Spacecraft Completes Successful Earth Swingby

  August 19, 2005 — NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, headed toward the first study of Mercury from orbit, has swung by Earth for a gravity assist that propelled it deeper into the inner solar ... > full story
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  Snaring Secrets Of The Venus Flytrap: Researchers Detail Plant Kingdom's Fastest Move

  January 27, 2005 — A team of researchers has solved the riddle of one of the plant kingdom's fastest and most ferocious movements: the blink-of-an-eye closing of the Venus ... > full story
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  NASA Goes To The 'SORCE' Of Earth Sun-Blockers

  July 23, 2004 — Scientists using measurements from NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) satellite have discovered that Venus and sunspots have something in common: they both block some of the ... > full story
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Scientists To View Venus' Atmosphere During Transit, Search For Water Vapor On Distant Planet

  June 4, 2004 — Venus traverses the Sun for the first time in 122 years at an angle visible from Earth. On June 8, peering through a specialized solar telescope in the Canary Islands, astronomers will study the ... > full story
• Solar System
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  'Fab Five' Make Rare Appearance In Night Sky

  March 22, 2004 — Like a busy urban family, planets rarely get together all at once. Later this month, however, the five so-called naked-eye planets - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn - will reunite in the ... > full story
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  NASA Observatory Tracking Rare Solar Event

  May 5, 2003 — The planet Mercury will pass in front of the sun on Wednesday, May 7 in an unusual event called a transit. NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft offers excellent, safe views ... > full story
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  A Rising Force: New Study On Ancient Mantle Plumes

  January 28, 2002 — The subject of mantle plumes--bodies of hot buoyant material that rise through Earth’s mantle--has become increasingly popular as scientists explore new links between mantle plumes and other ... > full story

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