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Venus, If You Will, as Seen in Radar With the Green Bank Telescope

Mar. 9, 2015 — Recently, by combining the highly sensitive receiving capabilities of the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope and the powerful radar transmitter at the NSF's Arecibo ... read more

Heavy Metal Frost? A New Look at a Venusian Mystery

Oct. 20, 2014 — Venus is hiding something beneath its brilliant shroud of clouds: a first order mystery about the planet that researchers may be a little closer to solving because of a new re-analysis of ... read more

Rediscovering Venus to Find Faraway Earths: Measuring Gravitational Pull of a Planet Should Speed Search

Oct. 14, 2014 — As the search for Earth-like planets wages on, a team of researchers may have found a way to speed up the process. The team is developing a new laser-based technology known as the green astro-comb to ... read more

Unraveling Mysteries of the Venusian Atmosphere

Sep. 11, 2014 — Underscoring the vast differences between Earth and its neighbor Venus, new research shows a glimpse of giant holes in the electrically charged layer of the Venusian atmosphere, called the ... read more

Astronomers Pinpoint 'Venus Zone' Around Stars

Sep. 10, 2014 — Astronomers have defined the 'Venus Zone,' the area around a star in which a planet is likely to exhibit the unlivable conditions found on the planet Venus. The research will aid Kepler ... read more

Mercury Passes in Front of the Sun, as Seen from Mars

June 11, 2014 — NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has imaged the planet Mercury passing in front of the sun, visible as a faint darkening that moves across the face of the ... read more

Planet-Sized Space Weather Explosions at Venus

Feb. 20, 2014 — Researchers recently discovered that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth's magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere, has much larger repercussions for Venus. The giant ... read more

Sounding Rocket to Peek at Atmosphere of Venus

Nov. 25, 2013 — A week after launching a new orbiter to investigate the upper atmosphere of Mars, NASA is sending a sounding rocket to probe the atmosphere of ... read more

Venus Vortices Go for Chaotic Multi-Storey Strolls Around the Poles

Mar. 24, 2013 — A detailed study of Venus' South Polar Vortex shows a much more chaotic and unpredictable cyclone than previously thought. The analysis reveals that the center of rotation of the vortex wanders ... read more

Cassini Spies Bright Venus from Saturn Orbit

Mar. 4, 2013 — A distant world gleaming in sunlight, Earth's twin planet, Venus, shines like a bright beacon in images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around ... read more

Venus Transit and Lunar Mirror Could Help Astronomers Find Worlds Around Other Stars

Dec. 13, 2012 — On June 6, 2012, Venus passed directly between Earth and the sun, in a so-called transit where the planet appears as a silhouette against the solar disk, something that will not happen again until ... read more

Mariner 2's Encounter With Venus: NASA Celebrates 50 Years of Planetary Exploration

Dec. 12, 2012 — Fifty years ago on a mid-December day, NASA's Mariner 2 spacecraft sailed close to the shrouded planet Venus, marking the first time any spacecraft had ever successfully made a close-up study of ... read more

Have Venusian Volcanoes Been Caught in the Act?

Dec. 3, 2012 — Six years of observations by the European Space Agency's Venus Express have shown large changes in the sulfur dioxide content of the planet's atmosphere, and one intriguing possible ... read more

Snap the Stars to See Your Photo on ESA Portal

Nov. 16, 2012 — Have you taken an interesting astronomical photo this year? From planets and moons to the Sun, stars and galaxies, we’d like you to send us your images to feature as our Space Science Image of the ... read more

A Curious Cold Layer in the Atmosphere of Venus

Oct. 2, 2012 — Venus Express has spied a surprisingly cold region high in the planet's atmosphere that may be frigid enough for carbon dioxide to freeze out as ice or ... read more

Venus Transit Movie Shows Perspective in Viewing Our Solar System

Sep. 28, 2012 — New movies of the transit of Venus on June 6, 2012, viewed from two different locations on Earth, clearly show the parallax effects that have made Venus transits so important historically. The ... read more

Venus' Transit and the Search for Other Worlds

June 5, 2012 — It's the final opportunity of the century to witness the rare astronomical reunion of the sun, Venus and Earth. On Tuesday, June 5 or 6, 2012, depending on your location, Venus will make its ... read more

The Mysterious Arc of Venus

June 4, 2012 — When Venus transits the sun on June 5-6, an armada of spacecraft and ground-based telescopes will be on the lookout for something elusive and, until recently, unexpected: the arc of ... read more

RHESSI Will Use Venus Transit to Improve Measurements of the Sun's Diameter

June 4, 2012 — With the new data obtained during the Venus transit on June 5-6, 2012, the RHESSI team hopes to improve the knowledge of the exact shape of the sun and provide a more accurate measure of the diameter ... read more

Venus Transit: June 5-6, 2012

June 1, 2012 — On June 5, 2012, at 6:03 PM EDT, the planet Venus will do something it has done only seven times since the invention of the telescope: cross in front of the sun. This transit is among the rarest of ... read more
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