http://www.venustoday.com/ Venus Today en-us Thu, 17 May 2012 15:29:01 PST kcowing@spaceref.com mkboucher@spaceref.com Copyright 2006, SpaceRef Interactive Inc. http://images.spaceref.com/venustoday.jpg http://www.venustoday.com/ 112 19 Venus Today - a service of SpaceRef http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=36652 Venus is a rarity among planets - a world that does not internally generate a magnetic field. Despite the absence of a large protective magnetosphere, the near-Venus environment does exhibit a number of similarities with planets such as Earth. Mon, 9 Apr 2012 18:03:23 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=36435 ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has returned to routine operation after its startracker cameras were temporarily blinded last week by radiation from a pair of large solar flares. Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:52:25 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=36289 Three months before the last transit of Venus this century, scientists are gathering at the Observatoire de Paris to finalize their observation plans in a workshop supported by the Europlanet Research Infrastructure and the EGIDE/PHC Sakura Program. Mon, 5 Mar 2012 16:06:17 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=36032 ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has discovered that our cloud-covered neighbor spins a little slower than previously measured. Peering through the dense atmosphere in the infrared, the orbiter found surface features were not quite where they should be. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:41:07 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=34805 At first glance, a weather forecaster for Venus would have either a really easy or a really boring job, depending on your point of view. Thu, 29 Sep 2011 2:13:49 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=38422 NASA Solicitation: Venus High Temperature Seismometer Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:52:54 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=38216 Desert planets strikingly like the world depicted in the science fiction classic "Dune" might be the more common type of habitable planet in the galaxy - findings also hint that Venus might have been a habitable desert world as recently as 1 billion years ago. Thu, 1 Sep 2011 15:41:27 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=37830 Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG) Meeting Mon, 25 Jul 2011 1:44:58 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=33229 New analysis of images taken by ESA's Venus Express orbiter has revealed surprising details about the remarkable, shape-shifting collar of clouds that swirls around the planet's South Pole. Fri, 8 Apr 2011 19:39:58 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=32169 A mysterious high-altitude layer of sulphur dioxide discovered by ESA's Venus Express has been explained. Wed, 1 Dec 2010 16:45:17 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=31795 The polar atmosphere of Venus is thinner than expected. How do we know? Because ESA's Venus Express has actually been there. Instead of looking from orbit, Venus Express has flown through the upper reaches of the planet's poisonous atmosphere. Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:06:42 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=31695 A new animation using data from ESA's Venus Express spacecraft shows that the double eye of the giant vortex at Venus's South pole has disappeared. Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:41:20 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=31109 ESA's Venus Express is helping planetary scientists investigate whether Venus once had oceans. If it did, it may even have begun its existence as a habitable planet similar to Earth. Thu, 24 Jun 2010 7:00:24 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=30573 For the first time, scientists have detected clear signs of recent lava flows on the surface of Venus. Thu, 8 Apr 2010 11:44:35 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=30572 ESA's Venus Express has returned the clearest indication yet that Venus is still geologically active. Relatively young lava flows have been identified by the way they emit infrared radiation. The finding suggests the planet remains capable of volcanic eruptions. Thu, 8 Apr 2010 11:43:35