NASA/JPL/USGS Like Earth, our Twin planet Venus’s origins began around 4.5 billion years ago, in a gyrating cloud of dust, rock and rubble. In many ways, the two planets are similar—in size, density and gravity. Both have iron-rich cores, mantles filled with churning molten rock, an...
On June 12, 2021, ESA announced its next Venus orbiter –EnVision. "A new era in the exploration of our closest, yet wildly different, Solar System neighbour awaits us," Günther Hasinger, ESA's director of science, said in a statement. "Together with the newly announced NASA-led Venus...
We have written many articles about Venus for Universe Today. Here are someinteresting facts about Venus, and here are somepictures of planet Venus. If you’d like more information on Venus, check outHubblesite’s News Releases about Venus, and here’s a link toNASA’s Solar System Explorat...
NASA/JPL/Caltech (NASA photo # PIA00271) While Venus slowlyslowlyturns on its axis every 243 days, its upper atmosphere whips around the planet underneath it every 4 days. Why? Speculation is that this “superrotation,” as it’s called, has something to do with thermal tides induced by...
Venus is one of the weirdest planets in the solar system. We explore the scorching planet in more detail with 20 interesting facts about Venus.
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Credit: NASA/JPL Some planetary scientists refer to our cosmic neighbor Venus as “the planet that threw up on itself.” Let me explain. The brightest planet in our skies, an object of eternal mystery, Venus is shrouded in thick clouds that have defied historical attempts to understand our...
At a closest average distance of 41 million km (25,476,219 mi), Venus is the closest planet to Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL/Magellan Examples in Fiction: Since the early 20th century, the idea of colonizing Venus has been explored in science fiction, mainly in the form of terraforming it. ...
This image of Mariner 10 identifies the spacecraft's science instruments, which were used to study the atmospheric, surface and physical characteristics of Venus and Mercury. (Image credit: NASA) Mariner 10 was the first spacecraft to use the gravity of one planet (Venus) to slingshot to a ...