News About Venus 02-JUL-08 en-us Paris, France (ESA) Jun 09, 2008 - As ESA's Venus Express orbits our sister planet, new images of the cloud structure of one of the most enigmatic atmospheres of the Solar System reveal brand-new details.]]> ]]> Paris, France (ESA) May 20, 2008 - The VIRTIS instrument on Venus Express has made the first detection of hydroxyl in the atmosphere of Venus. This provides new insight into the dynamics of the upper atmosphere and the climate system of the planet. The results are published in the May 2008 issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics.]]> Paris, France (ESA) May 16, 2008 - 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.]]> Paris, France (ESA) Apr 07, 2008 - 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, or linked to a hitherto unknown mechanism affecting the upper atmosphere.]]> ]]> Paris, France (ESA) Mar 14, 2008 - Venus Express has constantly been observing the south pole of Venus and has found it to be surprisingly fickle. An enormous structure with a central part that looks like the eye of a hurricane, morphs and changes shape within a matter of days, leaving scientists puzzled.]]> Paris, France (SPX) Feb 22, 2008 - Venus Express has revealed a planet of extraordinarily changeable and extremely large-scale weather. Bright hazes appear in a matter of days, reaching from the south pole to the low southern latitudes and disappearing just as quickly. Such 'global weather', unlike anything on Earth, has given scientists a new mystery to solve.]]> Paris, France (ESA) Feb 20, 2008 - ESA's Venus Express has recently 'peeled back' the thick clouds around Venus to provide the most accurate and wide-ranging map of water vapour and other gases in the lower atmosphere to date.]]> SOLAR  ENERGY  SOLUTIONS

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]]> Paris, France (ESA) Feb 05, 2008 - Since the successful orbit insertion of Venus Express in April 2006, the VIRTIS instrument has gathered numerous high-resolution spectra of Venus' atmosphere in the wavelength range 2-5 micron. Taking advantage of a broad spectral window around 2.3 micron, the data has allowed for mapping of minor constituents in the deep atmosphere below the planet's thick cloud deck.]]> Paris, France (ESA) Dec 05, 2007 - Venus Express has studied the true extent of Venus's restless atmosphere. This includes the planet's glow, its highly variable south polar vortex and the dynamic upper atmosphere, different from what is seen on any other rocky planet of the Solar System. Venus' faint glow of light coming from molecules in the atmosphere is providing scientists a detailed look into its physical and chemical processes.]]> Paris, France (ESA) Dec 05, 2007 - Venus has a rich and complicated atmosphere - the densest of all the rocky planets - which is the key to understanding the planet itself. Venus Express, designed to perform an extensive investigation of the atmosphere, has revealed surprising details about its temperature structure.]]> ]]> ]]> Paris, France (ESA) Dec 04, 2007 - Today, Venus is a hellish place of high temperatures and crushing air pressure. Venus Express is showing that this was not always the case. Instead, some time in the past, Venus was probably much more Earth-like and contained large quantities of water. Planetary scientists have long wondered just how Earth-like Venus is or might have been. Until the 1960s, astronomers speculated that Venus might be a tropical forest planet. This view changed when microwave observations began to suggest an extremely hot surface.]]> Paris, France (ESA) Dec 03, 2007 - Venus Express has exposed the true extent to which the Sun strips away the atmosphere of Venus. This process could be an important contribution to the way the planet has evolved to become so different from the Earth. The Sun has probably been stripping away the Venus' atmosphere throughout the planet's four-thousand million-year history.]]> Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2007 - 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 of surprises that may once have been more Earth-like, and still is, to a certain extent. Scientists hope that by studying atmosphere and climate of Venus, we may be able to better understand phenomenon such as global warming our own planet, Earth.]]> Advertise in this newsletter or website click for advertising kit - PDF File

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