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Venus may be currently decreasing its rotation speed, for unknown reasons. Recent investigations conducted using the European Space Agency's (ESA) Venus Express orbiter revealed that the location of surface features was slightly changed from where it should have been.
Observing the surface of our neighboring pl... |
11 February 2012
04:45 GMT |
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According to a paper published in a recent issue of the scientific journal Solar System Research, a Russian expert was recently able to discover what appears to be Venusian lifeforms, in old pictures.
Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the Soviet Union dispatched a series of space probes to our neighboring planet, includi... |
24 January 2012
02:38 GMT |
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In late December, images posted by the science team operating the NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) showed what appeared to be a triangular Unidentified Flying Object. The American space agency is now demonstrating that the UFO was just an artifact.
This mission is designed to observe the Sun. I... |
19 January 2012
14:01 GMT |
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Starting on Monday, December 26, the Moon and the planet Venus paired up in the night sky, and will remain in this position throughout the remainder of the week. This provides skywatchers with a great opportunity to observe both bodies at the same time.
Astronomers refer to such a pairing up as a conjunction. In th... |
28 December 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Data sent back by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Venus Express orbiter have revealed that our neighboring planet also features an ozone layer, high above its surface. The existence of such a layer has never even been considered before.
Scientists expect that more in-depth studies of the atmosphere surroun... |
6 October 2011
08:51 GMT |
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An international collaboration of experts, featuring scientists from the American space agency, recently managed to shed new light on the intricate phenomena taking place in the atmosphere high above the surface of Venus. Researchers were apparently wrong to think of the planet as being really boring.
Thus far, p... |
28 September 2011
04:36 GMT |
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In December 2010, the Akatsuki space probe developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) overshoot Venus, after it was unable to break sufficiently fast to allow for the planet's gravitational pull to take it into a stable orbit.
The failure came as a shock for JAXA, since it was its second spac... |
10 September 2011
04:05 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new astronomical study, it would appear that the atmospheric vortex that forms above the South Pole of Venus changes its shape daily, and sometimes even more often. At times, the vortex looks like an 8, or like an S, but it can also take on a range of other shapes as well. A counterp... |
8 April 2011
03:37 GMT |
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The surface of our neighboring planet, Venus, is not exactly the type of place you would call life-friendly. Chances of lifeforms enduring there are close to zero, experts say, and yet somehow not the same can be argued about its atmosphere. According to some, forms of primitive life may still exist in the mixture of... |
22 March 2011
09:10 GMT |
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In recent times, the international scientific community has been trapped in a debate seeking to establish whether the magnetic fields surrounding Earth are indeed responsible for our planet's appearance. One of the reasons why these discussions started is that Mars and Venus are bone dry planets. Though we are l... |
22 March 2011
04:33 GMT |
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Scientists with the American space agency believe they may have uncovered direct evidence that one of our neighboring planets, more precisely Venus, is still geologically active. Evidence to the contrary have been the norm for many years, so these conclusions are bound to stir up some controversy.No space expert had ... |
11 February 2011
09:10 GMT |
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Last month, as a Venus-bound spacecraft of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) was attempting to achieve orbital insertion around our neighboring planet, a faulty engine valve caused the mission to fail. Now, JAXA officials say there may still be hope for the malfunctioning probe. After the original shock a... |
6 January 2011
03:43 GMT |
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The preliminary results of Japanese investigations into the reasons why the Akatsuki space probe failed to insert properly into Venusian orbit show that a faulty valve in one of the spacecraft's engine was most likely responsible. The probe – aptly named the first weather satellite to be deployed on anothe... |
29 December 2010
03:20 GMT |
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The international astronomical community is currently trying to assess whether a space body called 2002 VE68 can indeed be classified as a Venusian moon. The second planet from the Sun never had a satellite before, so experts want to be sure that they get the calculations right.The case of Earth is pretty clear-cut, ... |
10 December 2010
04:47 GMT |
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The Akatsuki space probe may have failed to achieve orbital insertion around Venus due to a collision with an impact object, or because one of its engine nozzles may have malfunctions, say investigators in Japan, quoted by news reports.
The spacecraft had spent more than 6 months traveling through space before arr... |
9 December 2010
02:33 GMT |
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According to officials at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the Venus-bound orbiter the organization launched earlier this year swung past the planet on Monday, but failed to achieve orbital insertion.As such, the probe is now traveling through space without a clear target. Experts calculate that it w... |
8 December 2010
04:39 GMT |
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Official announcements from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and various news outlets are reporting that the Venus orbiter Akatsuki had a major malfunction during maneuvers to enter orbit around its target.
At this point, the very fate of the mission is uncertain, experts managing the spacecraft s... |
7 December 2010
09:53 GMT |
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On May 21, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) successfully launched its Akatsuki space probe, which is to become the first ever weather satellite around another planet. The spacecraft arrived at Venus, its primary target, on Monday, December 6.According to mission controllers, the event took place at ar... |
7 December 2010
03:04 GMT |
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The Venus Express orbiter has recently sent back some datasets that made researchers wonder as to whether our neighboring planet may indeed hold clues to Earth's climate future. The spacecraft found peculiar sulfur dioxide clouds lurking at high altitudes above the planet's surface. The probe, operated by t... |
30 November 2010
08:28 GMT |
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The American space agency, in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), announce the winners of the Venus Climate Orbiter Participating Scientist Program.The initiative was started by NASA so that it could provide assistance to Japanese colleagues managing the scientific return of the Akatsuki... |
24 November 2010
06:50 GMT |
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According to data sent back by the Venus Express spacecraft, it would appear that the poisonous atmosphere surrounding our neighboring planet is actually a lot thinner than initially calculated.The datasets that led to these conclusions were not collected from an orbital perch, but rather from a series of low-altitud... |
7 October 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Earth and Venus may have atmosphere with entirely different chemical compositions, but the lightnings they produce look remarkably similar, researchers behind a new study say. They add that this finding only goes to demonstrate the vast number similarities that exist between our planet and Venus, which have often bee... |
23 September 2010
04:30 GMT |
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A new temperature model developed for Venus shows how heat gets distributed and exchanged between the planet's surface and its interior. The map could help shed light on several unanswered questions. One of the main conclusions that experts who created the new distribution map draw from it is that the Venusian a... |
21 September 2010
06:58 GMT |
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The American space agency had, at one point in its history, a very well-defined plan regarding the planet Venus. However, due to a large and varied number of reasons, these initiatives were abandoned, in favor of other space exploration missions. Now, two decades later, NASA is again turning its eye on our neighborin... |
30 July 2010
10:05 GMT |
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According to a panel of investigators from the American space agency, NASA should focus more on devising planetary defense strategies. The Ad-Hoc Task Force on Planetary Defense, a division of the NASA Advisory Council, explains that safeguarding Earth from the effects of impacts with large space rocks should be the ... |
27 July 2010
02:58 GMT |
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Experts at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced recently that their first solar sail demonstrator, the Ikaros spacecraft, managed to accomplish its mission. They explain that the small instrument managed to deploy a thin solar sail, and then used it to harness the power of light for motion. A so... |
22 July 2010
03:32 GMT |
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Officials at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announce that the nation's new Venus-bound spacecraft has launched successfully on Friday (local time). For the next six months, the weather satellite will be traveling to our neighboring planet, where it will then be injected in its observations orbi... |
21 May 2010
03:45 GMT |
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At precisely 5:44 pm EDT (2044 GMT) today, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will launch its new Venus mission. The effort, which is scheduled to last for about two years, will see the Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter soaring to the skies alongside the Ikaros solar sail technology demonstrator. This is o... |
17 May 2010
03:52 GMT |
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Officials at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced that engineers were able to deliver a new satellite, and a prototype propulsion system, to their delivery system this weekend. The maneuvers say a Venus-bound weather satellite and a solar sail demonstrator are being delivered to the Tanegashima ... |
13 May 2010
09:06 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has been operating the Venus Express spacecraft around the second planet from the Sun since April 2006. The instruments aboard the probe managed to collect a wealth of data about the surface and atmosphere of the space rock, and contributed considerably to our understanding of its stru... |
24 April 2010
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Using data collected recently by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Venus Express orbiter, researchers determined that the surface of our neighboring planet may still exhibit signs of volcanic activity. Hot spots of eruption and gas release may exist at several locations throughout Venus, the team behind the new ... |
9 April 2010
03:23 GMT |
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Astronomers have always considered that Venus, the second planet from the Sun, is a celestial body that went through a massive upheaval millions of years ago. They thought that a series of catastrophic events prompted the reshaping of the planet's surface, to the extent that no less than 80 percent of its surfac... |
29 March 2010
05:42 GMT |
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Officials at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announce that they have entered the final stages of preparing the organization's new space probe for flight. The Akatsuki spacecraft will fly to our neighboring planet Venus, where it will conduct science for Japan. This is the first such mission that... |
16 March 2010
04:31 GMT |
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As part of the New Frontiers Program 2009 Announcement of Opportunity, the NASA Ames Research Center, in Moffett Field, California, has submitted a number of scientific proposals to the space agency. Two of the projects have now qualified for the second stage of the competition, which means that the chances of them a... |
20 January 2010
09:07 GMT |
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Recently, the American space agency concluded one of its contests, which sought to bring in new ideas for projects related to space exploration. Three of these ideas are now selected as finalists, with the final decision scheduled to be taken soon. One of the potential missions proposes a scientific trip to the Moon,... |
30 December 2009
04:14 GMT |
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After NEC and Hitachi renounced the Project Keisoku contract back in May, a contract which implied that they would put together a hybrid scalar and vector supercomputer (a combination of Sparc processors and a variant of the SX engine from NEC), the Rikagaku Kankyusho research laboratory eventually decided to come up... |
28 November 2009
03:49 GMT |
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Between 1961 and 1985, the Soviet space agency funded and conducted a series of space-exploration missions to Venus, in order to collect as many scientific data about the “morning star” as possible. Ten of the probes in the Venera program successfully landed on the surface of the planet and relayed data b... |
9 October 2009
06:05 GMT |
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On July 19th, while looking through his amateur telescope at Venus, astronomer Frank Melillo, from Holtsville, NY, caught sight of what appeared to be a bright spot on the surface of the planet. The bright phenomenon suddenly appeared in the atmospheric clouds, and its origin left scientists completely in the dark. E... |
31 July 2009
15:01 GMT |
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For a long time, people have hypothesized on the way our planet is going to eventually end up. While the science is clear, stating that, most likely, the Sun will engulf us as it swells up at the end of its burning cycle, others believe that our planet may end at the “hands” of a comet. A new theory, howe... |
11 June 2009
01:55 GMT |
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Fujitsu has just announced that it is currently working on the development of an eight-core chip entitled Sparc64 VIIIfx that is expected to become the world's fastest central processing unit. According to available details, the processor, codenamed 'Venus', is expected to be capable of delivering a pe... |
14 May 2009
10:39 GMT |
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The planet Venus has been a constant apparition across our skies over the recent six months, gradually moving out of sight during the last few weeks. Now, it has entered the twilight, and that means it won't be visible at night, with the naked eye. However, the celestial arena won't remain deserted for long... |
4 April 2009
05:39 GMT |
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By centralizing the results of the latest observations of Venus, astronomers were puzzled to learn that the dynamics of the planet's atmosphere allowed for infrared nightglow emissions of nitric oxide. They mostly used feedback from the Venus Express spacecraft, which, in the end, helped them figure out the caus... |
30 January 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Although direct actions to engage alien life forms in dialog are believed to be a thing belonging to the modern age, astronomers say that this idea is actually almost two centuries old. Nearly 150 years before the first radio message was sent in space via radio transmissions, some daring scientists pondered the possi... |
29 January 2009
10:24 GMT |
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Despite the fact that Venus and Earth both began with about the same amount of water when they were first formed, our planet is currently home to 100,000 times more water than there was on our neighbor. And while it's understandable that the super-heated surface of Venus cannot sustain water (with temperatures a... |
6 January 2009
04:32 GMT |
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A new study performed by a team of scientists led by Dmitry Titov from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and based on images received from the European Space Agency's Venus Express spacecraft revealed the mysterious source of the light and dark bands seen on the planet's surface in ultravio... |
4 December 2008
08:17 GMT |
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Tonight is one of those rare times when you get the chance to experience a celestial event that is really worth sacrificing your neck's comfort for a short while. From early in the evening of December 1st, the most bright visible objects in the darkened sky will form a stylized face (a smiley or emoticon for tho... |
1 December 2008
09:17 GMT |
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Those of you who will have the time and proper conditions to gaze at the night sky tonight should know that it's going to be a literal version of an all-star Halloween on a small scale. Well, actually, not all stars, but you know what they say about three being a crowd – we could apply this here as well. M... |
31 October 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Venus' atmosphere is probably the most mysterious of all celestial bodies in the Solar System, presenting an intricate cloud structure which extends between 45 and 70 kilometers above the scorching hot surface. They contain high concentrations of sulphuric acid combined with other aerosols moving at fast speeds,... |
30 May 2008
10:59 GMT |
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This is the first time when hydroxyl molecules are detected outside Earth and the finding could unravel some of the secrets to how Venus' dense atmosphere works. Hydroxyl, if you still remember a little bit of chemistry from school, is a compound consisting of one atom of hydrogen and one of oxygen. This substan... |
15 May 2008
06:13 GMT |
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It's quite obvious that the Earth is going through a climate change that may have effects far more serious than a slight heating of the atmosphere. A prolonged heating, as a new study suggests, could bring our planet into a situation similar to that of Venus, whose crust became locked in place."The heat required... |
13 May 2008
05:33 GMT |
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