ESA's Venus Express, utilizing its VIRTIS instrument, obtained the first large-area temperature maps of Venus' southern hemisphere by detecting thermal radiation through atmospheric infrared spectral ...

DAVINCI will send a meter-diameter probe to brave the high temperatures and pressures near Venus’ surface to explore the atmosphere from above the clouds to near the surface of a terrain that may have ...

Developed together, the twin Mariner 1 and 2 spacecraft were based on the Ranger lunar probe and planned for a joint mission ...

It sounds outlandish, but according to new research, the scorching planet of Venus could once have been habitable. The average surface temperature on Venus today is 863 degrees Fahrenheit (462 degrees ...

Imaging data from Japan’s Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully used to monitor temporal changes in Venus’ cloud-top temperature, revealing unseen patterns in the ...

Venus, the second planet from the sun, seems like the last place one would want to send human beings. The surface of the cloud-shrouded planet is a hellscape. On Venus, temperatures reach 900 degrees ...

NASA has selected two missions, dubbed DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, to study the "lost habitable" world of Venus. Each mission will receive approximately US$500 million for development and both are expected ...

It may seemdownright bizarre, but a new model of Venus' super-hot atmosphere suggests its greenhousegases may actually be cooling the planet's interior. These gasesinitially cause Venus' temperature ...

Planet Venus is not the best world to search for extraterrestrial life. It has a toxic atmosphere 90 times thicker than Earth's and its surface temperatures are hot enough to melt lead. A new study, ...

What is the importance of studying explosive volcanism on Venus? This is what a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated ...

NASA is funding a study that may pave the way for a rechargeable lander on Venus; one that would be wirelessly charged by a floating, balloon-like companion that would collect solar power in our ...

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