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53 matches found for "Venus cloud"

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New map hints at Venus's wet, volcanic past

The map comprises over a thousand individual images, recorded between May 2006 and December 2007. Because Venus is covered in clouds, normal cameras cannot see the surface, but Venus Express used a pa...

Earth Sciences |

Mysteries of Venus revealed at wavelengths invisible to human eyes

Using the spacecraft’s ultraviolet and infrared cameras, the Venus Express team, including UK scientists, have been able to compare what the planet looks like at different wavelengths, allowing them t...

Physics and Astronomy |

Venus comes to life at wavelengths invisible to human eyes

Using Venus Express, it is possible to compare what the planet looks like in different wavelengths, giving scientists a powerful tool to study the physical conditions and dynamics of the planet’s atmo...

Physics and Astronomy |

Team led by scientists from University of the Basque Country manage to measure wind details of Venus

On the one hand, it spins very slowly on its axis, taking 224 terrestrial days and, moreover, it does so in the opposite direction to that of our planet, i.e. from East to West.Its dense atmos...

Physics and Astronomy |

Venus Express reboots the search for active volcanoes on Venus

The search for volcanoes is a long-running thread in the exploration of Venus. “Volcanoes are a key part of a climate system,” says Fred Taylor, a Venus Express Interdisciplinary Scientist from Oxford...

Physics and Astronomy |

The puzzling 'eye of a hurricane' on Venus

The eye of the hurricane is at the centre of a 2000 km-wide vortex. It was discovered in 1974 by the Mariner 10 spacecraft. There is a similar structure on the planet’s north pole, which was observed ...

Physics and Astronomy |

CU-Boulder scientists ready for NASA's MESSENGER Mission flyby of Mercury

Launched in August 2004, MESSENGER has already flown by Venus twice and will make the first of three flybys of Mercury next week before finally settling into orbit around Mercury in 2011. The only oth...

Physics and Astronomy |

An extraterrestrial's view of the Earth

Owing to the role played by clouds, which are so commonplace on Earth but unique in the Solar System for their dynamism, it could suffice scientists to analyse the brightness of a planet to ascertain ...

Physics and Astronomy |

MIT, others ask 'What would E.T. see?'

As astronomers become more adept at searching for, and finding, planets orbiting other stars, it's natural to wonder if anybody is looking back. Now, a team of astronomers that includes a profess...

Physics and Astronomy |

Basque Country University researchers publish two articles in Nature on latest discoveries on Venus

The Venus Express space mission was launched in November 2005 and entered in planetary orbit in April 2006. Since then it has been regularly sending data and images from Venus. Thanks to this space mi...

Physics and Astronomy |

Computer models suggest planetary and extrasolar planet atmospheres

The world is abuzz with the discovery of an extrasolar, Earth-like planet around the star Gliese 581 that is relatively close to our Earth at 20 light years away in the constellation Libra. Br...

Physics and Astronomy |

Ground - based observatories join forces with Venus Express

This campaign will contribute to the growing body of information on the nature of Venus’s atmosphere and will help put the spacecraft’s observations into a broader context. Between 23 May and ...

Physics and Astronomy |

Venus Express’ infrared camera goes filming

The south pole of the planet and its gigantic double vortex has been pictured as never before. The south pole of Venus and the double-eyed storm permanently rule atmospheric phenomena in that ...

Physics and Astronomy |

Climate catastrophes in the Solar System

Modelling Earth’s climate to predict its future has assumed tremendous importance in the light of mankind’s influence on the atmosphere. The climate of our two neighbours is in stark contrast to that ...

Physics and Astronomy |