Hugh Pickens writes "In the 1970s and 80s, several probes landed on Venus and returned data from the surface but they all expired less than 2 hours after landing because of Venus' tremendous heat. It's hard to keep a rover functioning when temperatures of... ...full story at slashdot
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Venus' Stop/Start History Highlighted By Probe » slashdot An anonymous reader writes "Science Daily reports on scientific findings from the EU Venus Express probe. The device, which is even now orbiting Earth's sister planet, is feeding back data hinting at Venus' origins. Initially, the probe has found, the... |
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Floating Cities On Venus » slashdot Geoffrey.landis writes "Some of you may have heard me talk about colonizing Venus. Well, for those who haven't, Universe Today is running story about floating cities on Venus. It's a reasonable alternative for space colonies — after all, the... |
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Venus Express celebrates 500 days around Venus » the register (uk) Lots of data, struggling with a bottleneck Basking in four times the radiation its sister craft, Mars Express, receives, Venus Express is celebrating its 500th day around, and 500th orbit of, our twin planet.… |
| 29 Nov 07 |
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Boffins report lightning on Venus, our non-identical twin » the register (uk) Mission accomplished for Venus Express The European Space Agency's Venus Express probe has confirmed that there is lightning on our twin planet. This means that lightning has been confirmed on four of the solar system's eight official planets, but Venus'... |
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New Results From Venus Express » slashdot Riding with Robots writes "For the past two years, Europe's Venus Express orbiter has been studying Earth's planetary neighbor up close. Today, mission scientists have released a new collection of findings and amazing images. They include evidence of... |
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