http://www.venustoday.com/ Venus Today en-us Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:29:00 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=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 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=29919 NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $3.3 million for a detailed, one-year concept study for a lander mission to Venus to study the history of its surface, climate and atmosphere and to predict its ultimate fate in the solar system. Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:56:59 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=29897 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been holding the "AKATSUKI Message Campaign" in order to enhance people's interest in Venus and to make people feel familiar with the Venus Climate Orbiter "AKATSUKI". Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:22:13 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=28728 Venus Express has charted the first map of Venus's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths. The new map hints that our neighbouring world may once have been more Earth-like, with both, a plate tectonics system and an ocean of water. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 10:40:38 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=28711 Venus Express has charted the first map of Venus's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths. The new map hints that our neighbouring world may once have been more Earth-like, with both, a plate tectonics system and an ocean of water. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:00:44 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=27620 ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has observed an eerie glow in the night-time atmosphere of Venus. Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:25:53 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=30227 NASA is developing potential proposals for the upcoming New Frontiers Program Announcement of Opportunity (2009) that involve multiple strategies for Venus exploration. Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:01:28 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=27223 Venus Express has made the first detection of an atmospheric loss process on Venus's day-side. Last year, the spacecraft revealed that most of the lost atmosphere escapes from the night-side. Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:23:09 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=27080 A pale yellow dot to the human eye, Earth's twin planet comes to life in the ultraviolet and the infrared. New images taken by instruments on board ESA's Venus Express provide insight into the turbulent atmosphere of our neighbouring planet. Wed, 3 Dec 2008 10:39:21 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=26896 In a successful September demonstration of its growing capabilities, the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) detected transmissions from New Horizons while the spacecraft was more than a billion miles from home. Mon, 10 Nov 2008 7:45:22 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=26668 The images of Earth cover both visible and near-infrared regions of the spectrum and can be split into spectra, in order to search for the signature of molecules in the Earth's atmosphere. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:57:04 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=26492 Data from the VMC, SPICAV-SOIR, VIRTIS and MAG instruments on Venus Express have been delivered to the ESA Planetary System Archive and are now freely available to interested users. Mon, 22 Sep 2008 7:13:18 http://www.venustoday.com/news/viewpr.rss.html?pid=26452 It is well known that winds on Venus are extremely fast and powerful. Now, ESA's Venus Express has, for the first time, put together a 3-D picture of the venusian winds for an entire planetary hemisphere. Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:27:05