»» Chasing clouds on Venus
[Monday, October 8, 2012] Clouds regularly punctuate Earth's blue sky, but on Venus the clouds never part, for the planet is wrapped entirely in a 20 km-thick veil of carbon dioxide and sulphuric dioxide haze.
»» A curious cold layer in the atmosphere of Venus
[Tuesday, October 2, 2012] Venus Express has spied a surprisingly cold region high in the planet's atmosphere that may be frigid enough for carbon dioxide to freeze out as ice or snow.
»» Venus Transit Movie Shows Viewing Perspective
[Friday, September 28, 2012] New movies of the transit of Venus on 6 June 2012, viewed from two different locations on Earth, clearly show the parallax effects that have made Venus transits so important historically.
»» Venus: An Engineering Problem
[Tuesday, July 31, 2012] Hot, toxic, and murky, Venus serves as an extraordinary engineering challenge, according to Jim Garvin.
»» Image: Hinode Views the 2012 Venus Transit
[Thursday, June 7, 2012] On June 5, 2012, Hinode captured these stunning views of the transit of Venus -- the last instance of this rare phenomenon until 2117.
»» NASA's SDO Captures 2012 Venus Transit Approach
[Wednesday, June 6, 2012] This image from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows Venus as it nears the disk of the sun on June 5, 2012. Venus's 2012 transit will be the last such event until 2117.
»» ESA missions gear up for transit of Venus
[Monday, June 4, 2012] High above Earth, astronaut Don Pettit is preparing to photograph the June 5th Transit of Venus from space itself.
»» ESA missions gear up for transit of Venus
[Monday, June 4, 2012] ESA's Venus Express and Proba-2 space missions, along with the international SOHO, Hinode, and Hubble spacecraft, are preparing to monitor Venus and the Sun during the transit of Earth's sister planet during 5-6 June.
»» Venus, A Planetary Portrait of Inner Beauty
[Friday, June 1, 2012] A Venus transit across the face of the Sun is a relatively rare event -- occurring in pairs with more than a century separating each pair.
»» Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit
[Friday, May 4, 2012] This mottled landscape shows the impact crater Tycho. Astronomers didn't aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study Tycho, however. The image was taken in preparation to observe the transit of Venus across the Sun's face on June 5-6.
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