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Newly-Processed Views of Venus from Mariner 10

Mars Imaged by Hubble

As it sped away from Venus, NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft captured this seemingly peaceful view of a planet the size of Earth, wrapped in a dense, global cloud layer.

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A Long-lived Sharp Disruption on the Lower Clouds of Venus

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Planetary-scale waves are thought to play a role in powering the yet-unexplained atmospheric superrotation of Venus.

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Atmospheric Tidal Waves Maintain Venus's Super-Rotation

Images from the Akatsuki spacecraft unveil what keeps Venus's atmosphere rotating much faster than the planet itself.

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New Evidence That Venus Has Active Volcanoes

New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published today in Science Advances shows that lava flows on Venus may be only a few years old, suggesting that Venus could be volcanically active today -- making it the only planet in our solar system, other than Earth, with recent eruptions.

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The Return to Venus and What It Means for Earth

Now superheated by greenhouse gases, Venus' climate was once more similar to Earth's, with a shallow ocean's worth of water. It may even have subduction zones like Earth, areas where the planet's crust sinks back into rock closer to the core of the planet.

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Giant Pattern Discovered in the Clouds of Planet Venus

A Japanese research group has identified a giant streak structure among the clouds covering planet Venus based on observation from the spacecraft Akatsuki.

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Venus's Mysterious Night Side Revealed

The study shows that atmosphere on Venus' night side behaves very differently to that on the side of the planet facing the Sun (the 'dayside').

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Venus's Turbulent Atmosphere

Venus is often referred to as Earth's twin because both planets share a similar size and sur-face composition. Also, they both have atmospheres with complex weather systems.

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How Bromine Fits Into Venusian Chemistry

Bromine species, and hydrogen bromide (HBr) in particular, could play an important part in the photochemistry of the lower atmosphere of Venus.

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

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

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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