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Experts of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the European Space Agency (ESA) are discussing the possibility of a joint space expedition to Venus. Read more

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 its sister spacecraft Mars Express arrived at Mars, Europe’s newest planetary probe is...

The surface of Venus is perpetually covered by a veil of thick clouds and remains hidden from even the powerful telescopic eyes of earth-bound astronomers. But in the early 1990s, using imaging radar, the V...

Expand (195kb, 1024 x 768) Expand (6kb, 792 x 554) Venus 6:20 GMT, 9th November 2007 Zoom view

The Japanese Space Agency, JAXA, announced on April 23rd that they are now accepting proposals for a microprobe to be piggybacked on the launch of Venus Climate Orbiter, their upcoming robotic mission to Venus. They will provide a free ride to either a low-Earth orbit or on a trajectory toward Venu...

Title: Asteroid 2002 VE68, a quasi-satellite of Venus Authors: Mikkola, S.; Brasser, R.; Wiegert, P.; Innanen, K. The asteroid 2002 VE68 is currently a quasi-satellite of Venus, the first object of this dynamical class to be discovered, and is also the first known co-orbital companion to Venus. O...

Venus Expand (131kb, 1024 x 768) Expand (129kb, 1024 x 768) Time 5:20 GMT, 08 Sept, 07 Exposure: 10 sec

The Soviet Venera 6 spacecraft was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (69-002C) on January 10, 1969 towards Venus to obtain atmospheric data. The spacecraft began its descent into the atmosphere of Venus on the 17th May, 1969. Read more

Russia plots return to Venus Densely clouded in acid-laden mist, Venus used to be the Soviet Union's favourite target for planetary exploration. Now, after a lull of almost three decades, Russia is making plans for a new mission to the "morning star" and has invited Western scientists t...

A high-tech refrigeration system could keep a rover functioning for weeks on the searingly hot surface of Venus, say NASA researchers. A long-lived Venus rover could help scientists understand why Venus, with its runaway greenhouse effect, has become so different from Earth. The surface of Venu...

Venera 3 was a Venera program space probe that was built and launched by the Soviet Union to explore the surface of Venus. It was launched on November 16, 1965 at 04:19 UTC from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The probe crash-landed on Venus on March 1, 1966 becoming the first spacecraft to land on another plane...

In early May, Venus began to emerge as an evening star very low in the western twilight. This evening, it sets 27 degrees north of due west (almost three widths of your fist held at arm’s length) nearly an hour after sunset. By June 1 this will have improved to 80 minutes, giving even casual obs...

Like occultations, there is another class of celestial phenomena that hold attraction to the astronomer. Known as 'transit' it represents the passage of a planet across the solar disc. Viewing from the earth there are only two planets that can come in between the Sun and ourselves: Mercury and Ven...

On May 19,1961, the Venera 1 spacecraft passed within 100,000 km of the planet Venus. On February 12, 1961, 00:34:36 UTC, the first planetary probe was launched to Venus by the Soviet Union. The Venus-1 Automatic Interplanetary Station, or Venera 1, was a 643.5 kg probe consisting of a cylindrical b...

A spacecraft built by students has been launched towards another planet for the first time, but it has fallen ominously silent. The toaster-oven-sized cube called UNITEC-1 was launched towards Venus on 20 May [2010]. It hitched a ride on the same rocket that launched a half-tonne Venus orbiter nam...

On this day in 1967, the Venera 4 spacecraft was launched. Venera 4 was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. Venera-4 was the first successful probe to perform in-place analysis of the environment of another planet. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_4]Rea...

Venera 10 was a USSR unmanned space mission to Venus. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It launched on June 14, 1975 03:00:31 UTC. Read more

Mariner 5 (Mariner Venus '67) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above t...

Venera 8 (manufacturer's designation: 3V (V-72)) was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. Venera 8 was a Venus atmospheric probe and lander. The spacecraft took 117 days to reach Venus with one mid-course correction on 6 April 1972, separating from the bus (which conta...

The Magellan spacecraft was a space probe arrived at its orbit around Venus on August 10, 1990. Read more

The Venera 7 (manufacturer's designation: 3V (V-70)) was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus. When it landed on the Venusian surface, it became the first man-made spacecraft to successfully land on another planet and to transmit data from there back to Earth. [url=htt...

Venera 9 was a USSR unmanned space mission to Venus. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It was launched on June 8, 1975 02:38:00 UTC and weighed 4,936 kg. The orbiter was the first spacecraft to orbit Venus, while the lander was the first to return images from the surface of another planet. [url=ht...

The transit will be best viewed from the Pacific Ocean. North America will be able to see the start of the transit, while South Asia, the Middle East, and most of Europe will catch the end of it. The transit will not be visible in most of South America or western Africa. Venus starts to cross the solar limb...

ESA finds that Venus has an ozone layer too ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has discovered an ozone layer high in the atmosphere of Venus. Comparing its properties with those of the equivalent layers on Earth and Mars will help astronomers refine their searches for life on other planets. Venus Expr...

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Venus Venus mission (Preview)	Mission News	1	2343	Nov 11 17:43 2016 by Blobrana
Experts of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the European Space Agency (ESA) are discussing the possibility of a joint space expedition to Venus. Read more
Venus Venus Express ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 8 ) (Preview)	Mission News	74	31170	May 16 13:54 2014 by Blobrana
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 its sister spacecraft Mars Express arrived at Mars, Europe’s newest planetary probe is...
Planet Venus Venus ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 8 ) (Preview)	Solar System	70	27892	Jun 4 22:17 2012 by Blobrana
The surface of Venus is perpetually covered by a veil of thick clouds and remains hidden from even the powerful telescopic eyes of earth-bound astronomers. But in the early 1990s, using imaging radar, the V...
Venus Venus ( 1 2 3 4 ) (Preview)	Observations	30	23531	Jan 23 18:52 2017 by Blobrana
Expand (195kb, 1024 x 768) Expand (6kb, 792 x 554) Venus 6:20 GMT, 9th November 2007 Zoom view
Venus Venus Climate Orbiter ( 1 2 3 4 5 ) (Preview)	Mission News	49	28262	Dec 8 11:49 2015 by Blobrana
The Japanese Space Agency, JAXA, announced on April 23rd that they are now accepting proposals for a microprobe to be piggybacked on the launch of Venus Climate Orbiter, their upcoming robotic mission to Venus. They will provide a free ride to either a low-Earth orbit or on a trajectory toward Venu...
Asteroid Venus Asteroid 2002 VE68 (Preview)	Solar System	3	3874	Aug 24 06:47 2012 by Blobrana
Title: Asteroid 2002 VE68, a quasi-satellite of Venus Authors: Mikkola, S.; Brasser, R.; Wiegert, P.; Innanen, K. The asteroid 2002 VE68 is currently a quasi-satellite of Venus, the first object of this dynamical class to be discovered, and is also the first known co-orbital companion to Venus. O...
Venus Venus (Preview)	Art gallery	3	2445	Sep 18 09:30 2007 by Blobrana
Venus Expand (131kb, 1024 x 768) Expand (129kb, 1024 x 768) Time 5:20 GMT, 08 Sept, 07 Exposure: 10 sec
Venus Venera Venera 6 spacecraft (Preview)	Mission News	1	2424	May 16 22:59 2012 by Blobrana
The Soviet Venera 6 spacecraft was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik (69-002C) on January 10, 1969 towards Venus to obtain atmospheric data. The spacecraft began its descent into the atmosphere of Venus on the 17th May, 1969. Read more
Venera Venus Venera-D (Preview)	Mission News	0	2240	Oct 7 17:45 2009 by Blobrana
Russia plots return to Venus Densely clouded in acid-laden mist, Venus used to be the Soviet Union's favourite target for planetary exploration. Now, after a lull of almost three decades, Russia is making plans for a new mission to the "morning star" and has invited Western scientists t...
Venus Venus Lander (Preview)	Mission News	0	2302	Nov 13 01:30 2007 by Blobrana
A high-tech refrigeration system could keep a rover functioning for weeks on the searingly hot surface of Venus, say NASA researchers. A long-lived Venus rover could help scientists understand why Venus, with its runaway greenhouse effect, has become so different from Earth. The surface of Venu...
Venera Venus Venera 3 (Preview)	Mission News	2	2482	Nov 16 07:49 2012 by Blobrana
Venera 3 was a Venera program space probe that was built and launched by the Soviet Union to explore the surface of Venus. It was launched on November 16, 1965 at 04:19 UTC from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The probe crash-landed on Venus on March 1, 1966 becoming the first spacecraft to land on another plane...
Venus Venus (Preview)	Events	2	2421	Aug 2 23:07 2010 by Blobrana
In early May, Venus began to emerge as an evening star very low in the western twilight. This evening, it sets 27 degrees north of due west (almost three widths of your fist held at arm’s length) nearly an hour after sunset. By June 1 this will have improved to 80 minutes, giving even casual obs...
Venus Transit The transit of Venus ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Events	12	13643	Jan 3 22:44 2013 by Blobrana
Like occultations, there is another class of celestial phenomena that hold attraction to the astronomer. Known as 'transit' it represents the passage of a planet across the solar disc. Viewing from the earth there are only two planets that can come in between the Sun and ourselves: Mercury and Ven...
Venus Venera Venera 1 spacecraft (Preview)	Mission News	2	2968	Feb 11 17:23 2014 by Blobrana
On May 19,1961, the Venera 1 spacecraft passed within 100,000 km of the planet Venus. On February 12, 1961, 00:34:36 UTC, the first planetary probe was launched to Venus by the Soviet Union. The Venus-1 Automatic Interplanetary Station, or Venera 1, was a 643.5 kg probe consisting of a cylindrical b...
Venus UNITEC-1 spacecraft (Preview)	Mission News	0	2148	May 28 23:41 2010 by Blobrana
A spacecraft built by students has been launched towards another planet for the first time, but it has fallen ominously silent. The toaster-oven-sized cube called UNITEC-1 was launched towards Venus on 20 May [2010]. It hitched a ride on the same rocket that launched a half-tonne Venus orbiter nam...
Venera Venus Venera 4 spacecraft (Preview)	Mission News	3	3055	Jun 12 06:22 2012 by Blobrana
On this day in 1967, the Venera 4 spacecraft was launched. Venera 4 was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. Venera-4 was the first successful probe to perform in-place analysis of the environment of another planet. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_4]Rea...
Venera Venus Venera 10 mission (Preview)	Mission News	6	3597	Oct 25 05:36 2012 by Blobrana
Venera 10 was a USSR unmanned space mission to Venus. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It launched on June 14, 1975 03:00:31 UTC. Read more
Mariner Venus Mariner 5 mission (Preview)	Mission News	3	2800	Oct 19 05:47 2012 by Blobrana
Mariner 5 (Mariner Venus '67) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above t...
Venera Venus Venera 8 mission (Preview)	Space missions	3	3358	Jul 21 21:32 2014 by Blobrana
Venera 8 (manufacturer's designation: 3V (V-72)) was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. Venera 8 was a Venus atmospheric probe and lander. The spacecraft took 117 days to reach Venus with one mid-course correction on 6 April 1972, separating from the bus (which conta...
Venus Magellan spacecraft (Preview)	Space missions	3	2818	Aug 10 06:15 2012 by Blobrana
The Magellan spacecraft was a space probe arrived at its orbit around Venus on August 10, 1990. Read more
Venera Venus Venera 7 (Preview)	Space missions	3	2380	Dec 15 07:30 2012 by Blobrana
The Venera 7 (manufacturer's designation: 3V (V-70)) was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus. When it landed on the Venusian surface, it became the first man-made spacecraft to successfully land on another planet and to transmit data from there back to Earth. [url=htt...
Venera Venus Venera 9 (Preview)	Space missions	1	2488	Oct 21 23:01 2011 by Blobrana
Venera 9 was a USSR unmanned space mission to Venus. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It was launched on June 8, 1975 02:38:00 UTC and weighed 4,936 kg. The orbiter was the first spacecraft to orbit Venus, while the lander was the first to return images from the surface of another planet. [url=ht...
Venus Transit Transit of Venus 2012 ( 1 2 3 4 5 … 7 ) (Preview)	Events	68	22738	Dec 21 10:07 2012 by Blobrana
The transit will be best viewed from the Pacific Ocean. North America will be able to see the start of the transit, while South Asia, the Middle East, and most of Europe will catch the end of it. The transit will not be visible in most of South America or western Africa. Venus starts to cross the solar limb...
Venus Venus Atmosphere ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Venus	11	20964	Jan 16 21:02 2017 by Blobrana
ESA finds that Venus has an ozone layer too ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has discovered an ozone layer high in the atmosphere of Venus. Comparing its properties with those of the equivalent layers on Earth and Mars will help astronomers refine their searches for life on other planets. Venus Expr...