The Venus Express exploration mission of European Space Agency continues to provide all of us with eerie findings on the Earth-like activities the second planet from the sun still possesses, four and a half billion years after it was ravaged by greenhouse effect.

According to the latest findings, lightning still flashes in Venus' atmosphere as remnants of its ocean continue to be whirled around the planet and are sometimes thrown out in space. Venus Express team project scientist Hakan Svedhem had this to say:

The findings show, of course, that the planet as it stands now is different from the Earth - the high temperatures, the high pressures, and the composition. But the processes, we now understand, are much more Earth-like.