Mars Express and Venus Express operations extended

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Venus Express is making unprecedented studies of the largely unkown phenomena taking place in the Venusian atmosphere. Its suit of instruments is also digging into the interaction between the solar wind and the planetary environment. Finally the miss ...
Venus Express is making unprecedented studies of the largely unkown phenomena taking place in the Venusian atmosphere. Its suit of instruments is also digging into the interaction between the solar wind and the planetary environment. Finally, the mission is also gathering glimpses about the planet's surface, striclty coupled with the dense atmosphere. Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab

ESA's Mars Express and Venus Express missions, to explore our nearest neighbour planets Mars and Venus respectively, will continue to operate until early-May 2009. The decision was unanimously taken by ESA's Science Programme Committee last Friday.


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