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Watching Venus glow in the dark
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Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has observed an eerie glow in the night-time atmosphere of Venus. This infrared light comes from nitric oxide and is showing scientists that the atmosphere of ...
ESA extends key missions studying Mars, Venus and Earth’s magnetosphere
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Feb 10, 2009 |
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ESA’s Science Programme Committee has extended the operations of ESA’s Mars Express, Venus Express and Cluster missions until 31 December 2009.
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Spacecraft Tandem Provide New Views of Venus
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 19, 2007 |
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NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging spacecraft, known as Messenger, and the European Space Agency's Venus Express recently provided the most detailed multi-point images of ...
Venus Express spacecraft fires main engine
Feb 20, 2006 |
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One hundred days after its launch to Venus, the European Space Agency's Venus Express has successfully tested its main engine for the first time in space.
Venus Express searching for life – on Earth
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Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using ESA’s Venus Express are trying to observe whether Earth is habitable. Silly, you might think, when we know that Earth is richly stocked with life. In fact, far from being ...
Expanding Spot on Venus Puzzles Astronomers
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Aug 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The expanding spot discovered on Venus last month may not have garnered as much attention as the meteor impact with Jupiter, but its cause is certainly more puzzling. ...
500 days at Venus, and the surprises keep coming
Sep 03, 2007 |
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Venus Express has now orbited Earth’s twin for 500 Earth days, completing as many orbits. While the satellite maintains steady and excellent performance, the planet continues to surprise and amaze us.
Venus Express reboots the search for active volcanoes on Venus
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Apr 04, 2008 |
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ESA’s Venus Express has measured a highly variable quantity of the volcanic gas sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere of Venus. Scientists must now decide whether this is evidence for active volcanoes on Venus, ...
Key molecule discovered in Venus's atmosphere
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May 15, 2008 |
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Venus Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of Venus’s dense atmosphere.
Mars and Venus are surprisingly similar
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Mar 05, 2008 |
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Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary scientists are watching the atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away into space. The simultaneous observations by Mars Express and Venus Express give scientists ...
Venus: Earth’s twin planet?
Nov 29, 2007 |
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ESA’s Venus Express has revealed Venus as never before. For the first time, scientists are able to investigate from the top of its atmosphere, down nearly to the surface. They have shown it to be a planet ...
Venus Express nears its launch date
Oct 13, 2005 |
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The European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft was attached to a Soyuz-Fregat upper-stage rocket this week in preparation for an Oct. 26 launch.
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