ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has just completed its last phase of testing in Europe and is ready to be shipped to its launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. One and a half years after ...
The polar atmosphere of Venus is thinner than expected. How do we know? Because ESA’s Venus Express has actually been there. Instead of looking from orbit, Venus Express has flown through the upper ...
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first detection with the Venus Express spacecraft of hydroxyl (OH) in the atmosphere of Venus. The OH “radical” is a very special and reactive molecule, ...
On 16 December, ESA’s hugely successful Venus Express mission came to an end after it exhausting its remaining propellant as of 28 November. No more fuel means no more ability to control the ...
At the end of the last Cebreros pass in the reporting period (DOY 033, 15:00) Venus Express was 32.3 million km from the Earth, 118.6 million km from the Sun, and 17.1 million km from Venus. The ...
Venus Express has charted the first map of Venus's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths. The new map hints that our neighbouring world may once have been more Earth-like, with both, a plate ...
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