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New images from Venus Express at 500 days in orbit

Posted Sep 05, 2007 at 01:48PM by Mabie A. Listed in: Astrobiology, Spacecraft, Space Missions Tags: Mars, Venus Express
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500 days in Venus - Image 1


The series of images you see above are that of Venus taken by VIRTIS aboard the Venus Express in February of this year. The mission has so far orbited the planet for 500 days, and has even more exciting surprises up its sleeves.

Quite a number of interesting data have been found, such as that the Earth's twin planet's atmosphere "seems extremely fickle." Hmmm... maybe there really is basis for affiliating the planet with women. That image above appears to corroborate that statement as various cloud activities can be seen in a matter of 10 consecutive Earth days taken in eight orbits.

Thanks to the Venus Express, about 1 Terabits (one million million bits) worth of data have been sent back to Earth, and we can definitely expect more. It has been reported that the Venus Express is doing much better than its twin spacecraft, the Mars Express, despite the challenging environment it is on.

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