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EnVision: Understanding Why Our Most Earth-like Neighbour Is So Different

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This document is the EnVision Venus orbiter proposal, submitted in October 2016 in response to ESA's M5 call for Medium-size missions for its Science Programme, for launch in 2029.

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Electronics for Longer Venus Surface Missions

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A team of scientists at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland recently completed a technology demonstration that could enable new scientific missions to the surface of Venus.

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Recently Active Lava Flows on Idunn Mons on Venus

The European Space Agency's Venus Express mission has provided a great amount of data from the surface and atmosphere of Earth's inner twin planet.

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Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Once Been Habitable

Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history, according to computer modeling of the planet's ancient climate by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York.

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Venus' Surface Revealed Through Its Clouds

Venus is famously hot, due to an extreme greenhouse effect which heats its surface to temperatures as high as 450 degrees Celsius.

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The Electric Wind of Venus

ESA's Venus Express may have helped to explain the puzzling lack of water on Venus.

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An Electric Wind can strip Earth-like Planets of Oceans and Atmosphere

Venus has an "electric wind" strong enough to remove the components of water from its upper atmosphere

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Experiment Sheds Light on Venus's Polar Atmosphere

Some of the final results sent back by ESA's Venus Express before it plummeted down through the planet's atmosphere have revealed it to be rippling with atmospheric waves -- and, at an average temperature of -157C, colder than anywhere on Earth.

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Japan's Akatsuki Is Orbiting Venus

The nail-biting maneuver that sent Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft into orbit around Venus this week is being celebrated by NASA scientists, eager to learn more about the atmosphere and climate of Earth's enigmatic sister planet.

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Destination: Venus

On 9 November 2005, 10 years ago today, ESA's Venus Express spacecraft left Earth and began its 153-day journey to Venus. The craft then spent eight years studying the planet in detail before the mission came to an end in December 2014.

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Studying The Atmosphere of Venus Through Transit Images

In this image, Venus is just beginning its journey across the face of the sun. Its atmosphere is visible as a thin, glowing border on the upper left of the planet.

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Hot Lava Flows Discovered on Venus

ESA's Venus Express has found the best evidence yet for active volcanism on Earth's neighbour planet.

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Small Solar Eruptions Can Have Profound Effects on Unprotected Planets

While no one yet knows what's needed to build a habitable planet, it's clear that the interplay between the sun and Earth is crucial for making our planet livable - a balance between a sun that provides energy and a planet that can protect itself from the harshest solar emissions.

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