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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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LG Venus has now become available from Telus, the third largest mobile operator in Canada, as expected after the announcement made a few weeks ago. What was not announced back then is the fact that the Venus can be bought for only $99 (that's in Canadian dollars, but they have the same value as the US ones). Su... |
17 April 2008
05:50 GMT |
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Measurements conducted with ESA's Venus Express spacecraft reveal that Venus contains variable quantities of sulphur dioxide gas in the upper layers of the atmosphere, which may be evidence that Venus still has active volcanoes on its surface or some other unknown mechanism is producing this effect. Sulphur diox... |
4 April 2008
10:01 GMT |
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LG Venus, the fashionable touchscreen candybar, will be available for Canadian mobile users starting April 2008, via Telus Mobility. The handset will come in two color versions, a black/silver one and a pink one, the latter being released at the end of the year's second quarter. LG Venus is the first touchscr... |
28 March 2008
15:42 GMT |
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Just a few days ago, ESAs Venus Express spacecraft reported the observation of a weird haze developing into the Venusian atmosphere for no apparent reason. The question about what really determined the appearance of the feature still remains, albeit the ESA has shifted its attention back to the eye of a hurricane rav... |
13 March 2008
10:27 GMT |
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Have you ever noticed how both Mars and Venus are ranked as planets rather similar to Earth, but never to each other? The ESA believes it's about time it put an end to this situation and gave the task to both the Mars Express and the Venus Express, to conduct simultaneous probing investigations to establish whet... |
5 March 2008
10:32 GMT |
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The European Space Agency's Venus Monitoring Camera, or VMC for short, surprised in the summer of last year what seems to be a bright haze that appeared and disappeared in Venus' atmosphere in a time interval of only a few days. The region where the feature was observed by the VMC is located near the southe... |
28 February 2008
08:27 GMT |
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Our large Moon is a testimony to the fact that Earth could have been created during a collision between two massive protoplanetary bodies. Could Venus have been created in the same way? Cardiff University scientist Dr Huw Davies believes so. This would be a first step into explaining why Venus, though relatively simi... |
28 February 2008
03:23 GMT |
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For those of you who are looking for unique images on the night sky, since tonight you can see how the closest planet to Earth, Venus, and the largest planet in the solar system, the gas giant Jupiter, slowly draw together to create some of the brightest systems visible this year. Don't worry though, the two are... |
25 January 2008
05:33 GMT |
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The solar system currently consists of four rocky planets and four gas giants, or at least that's what the international scientific community says. Do you notice a pattern? Me neither, not ever since the planet Pluto has been demoted from its status, to the position of minor planet. The four rocky planets in the... |
4 January 2008
10:53 GMT |
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Though Mars is most of the times considered Earth's sister planet, the truth might be completely different. As promised last week, the European Space Agency released yesterday in a press conference new information collected by the Venus Express mission, regarding Venus' atmosphere and surface. Surprisingly,... |
29 November 2007
04:53 GMT |
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Similar to the spacecraft Mars Express, the Venus Express is a project of the European Space Agency to study Venus. The Venus Express was the first mission to Venus, since the 1994 NASA's Magellan mission, but unlike NASA's spacecraft it is not designed to take direct pictures of the planets' surface, ... |
26 November 2007
10:01 GMT |
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Venus, along with Mars, is Earth's 'sister planet', but there's a big difference between the two. While temperature on Mars is -65 degrees Celsius on average, Venus has a temperature of about 450 degrees, due to an out of control greenhouse effect, hot enough to melt lead. The URSS and the US have... |
12 November 2007
09:15 GMT |
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A new method to study the properties of planets outside the solar system has been proposed by Jean-Loup Bertaux from the Service d'Aeronomie du CNRS. The technique is known as stellar occultation and France has suggested using it in ESA missions to study the planetary systems.The phenomenon occurs when light fr... |
6 November 2007
05:25 GMT |
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Surprises keep coming from Venus, exposed by Venus Express, which by now has completed 500 tours around the planet in 500 Earth days. The spacecraft maintains excellent conditions, it even receives four times more sun radiation than Mars Express, as the spacecraft design seems to be the right one. With each new orbit... |
4 September 2007
06:56 GMT |
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For many years, Venus, the second planet from the Sun and the brightest object in the night sky, refused to let astronomers peak under its opaque layer of highly reflective clouds of sulfuric acid, preventing its surface from being seen from space in visible light.Recent pictures taken by two missions designed to st... |
16 July 2007
06:17 GMT |
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Venus, or the Evening Star, as it is popularly known, will disappear from the night sky near the end of the month, depriving us of the brightest celestial body. Now it reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, but it will go below the horizon in less than three weeks.Being the bri... |
14 July 2007
06:57 GMT |
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Ladies and gentleman, please welcome the Venusian JXD951 portable media player!Apart from the irresistible slim design, the player sports a 4-inch 720 x 480 pixels TFT LCD screen with a 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, generous enough to enable comfortable viewing of the latest music video.For the ones that can hardly w... |
27 June 2007
03:07 GMT |
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Today, NASA published the first pictures of Venus, as seen by the Messenger probe, heading for Mercury. In a rehearsal for the big event of meeting Mercury up close, the Messenger space probe is swinging by Venus in a slingshot maneuver that will propel it towards the smallest planet in our solar system.NASA's ... |
15 June 2007
03:31 GMT |
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In a rehearsal for the big event of meeting Mercury up close, the Messenger space probe is going to swing by Venus in a slingshot maneuver that will propel it towards the smallest planet in our solar system.NASA's spacecraft Messenger (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) is a mission l... |
5 June 2007
02:53 GMT |
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This week, we will have a real "traffic jam" in the night sky. Four planets in our solar system plus the Moon will be visible even with the naked eye in the western sky. They are the closest planets to the Earth, but only for a brief period of time in a whole year can they be seen together in the sky. Amateur and pr... |
19 May 2007
07:10 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has just received infrared pictures of Venus from its nearest probe, Venus Express. The novelty is that the images have been recorded with the infrared camera that recently went online and started taking beautiful thermal pictures of Earth's sister. The camera is part of a large... |
8 May 2007
15:26 GMT |
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What happened to the lost oceans of Mars and Venus? What have scientists been discovering about the thick atmosphere on Saturn's moon Titan? How has the climate changed on each of these worlds, and could what happened to them happen to our Earth?Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by climate... |
26 April 2007
04:25 GMT |
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Often called the Morning Star or the Evening Star, Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, and the brightest natural object in the visible part of space in the night sky, except for the Moon.ESA's Venus Express mission provided new insights into the noxious atmosphere of Earth's sister planet. Venus... |
4 April 2007
06:12 GMT |
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