Venus

Venus comes to life at wavelengths invisible to human eyes

harminka — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:49:07 -0600

A pale yellow-green dot to the human eye, Earth's twin planet comes to life in the ultraviolet and the infrared. New images taken by instruments on board ESA's Venus Express provide insight into the turbulent atmosphere of our neighbouring planet.

Venus And Jupiter Coming Monday Night

Offbeatnews — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:22:12 -0600

Two very large silvery stars will adorn the moon Monday night. That’s when Venus and Jupiter will be visible in the night sky.

Magnetic patterns around Venus revealed

harminka — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:52:39 -0500

Venus lacks an intrinsic magnetic field. Instead, Venus's ionosphere acts as an obstacle to the supersonic solar wind that carries the interplanetary magnetic field.

When it comes to sex, some men are from Mars, others from Venus

harminka — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:35:00 -0500

A study by researchers at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University finds that men report a variety of different experiences involving sexual desire and arousal.

Mars and Venus are surprisingly similar

harminka — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:17:50 -0600

Using two ESA spacecraft, planetary scientists are watching the atmospheres of Mars and Venus being stripped away into space. The simultaneous observations by Mars Express and Venus Express give scientists the data they need to investigate the evolution of the two planets’ atmospheres.

How atmospheres of Mars and Venus are affected by carbon monoxide

harminka — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:59:28 -0600

Modelling of the Earth's atmosphere has acquired economic importance due to its use in the prediction of ozone depletion and in measuring the impact of global warming. Now, researchers, writing in the online open access journal PMC Physics B have found that the rate at which electrons lose energy to carbon monoxide is greater than that to carbon dioxide at higher levels in the atmospheres of both Mars and Venus

The light and dark of Venus

harminka — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:22:31 -0600

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.

Nightglow on Venus

harminka — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:15:56 -0600

When atoms combine to form molecules in the upper atmosphere, energy may be released in the form of photons, causing the atmosphere to weakly glow. Called “dayglow” over the dayside and “nightglow” over the nightside, such emissions of light are seen over Earth, Mars, and Venus.

2 articles in Nature on latest discoveries on Venus

harminka — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:17:00 -0600

Nature journal has published a series of articles devoted to the new discoveries by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Venus Express space probe made on our neighbouring planet.

New isotope molecule may add to Venus' greenhouse effect

harminka — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:53:13 -0500

Planetary scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have tracked down a rare molecule in the atmospheres of both Mars and Venus. The molecule, an exotic form of carbon dioxide, could affect the way the greenhouse mechanism works on Venus.

Scientists gear up for Mercury mission flyby of Venus

harminka — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:58:07 -0500

University of Colorado at Boulder researchers will scan Venus during a spacecraft flyby this week using an $8.7 million instrument they designed and built for NASA's MESSENGER Mission, launched in 2004 and speeding toward Mercury.