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Venus

Take a Rollercoaster Ride Around Venus

January 21, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter If you’ve ever wanted to see what it’s like to buzz Venus like only a spacecraft can, here’s your chance: this is a video animation of images taken by ESA’s Venus Express as it makes a pole-to-pole orbit of our neighboring [...]

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Are Venus’ Volcanoes Still Active?

December 3, 2012

Artist’s impression of an active volcano on Venus (ESA/AOES) Incredibly dense, visually opaque and loaded with caustic sulfuric acid, Venus’ atmosphere oppresses a scorched, rocky surface baking in planet-wide 425 ºC (800 ºF) temperatures. Although volcanoes have been mapped on our neighboring planet’s surface, some scientists believe the majority of them have remained inactive — at [...]

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Surprise! Hot Venus has a Cold Upper Atmosphere

October 1, 2012

Venus’ terminator – the transitional region between day and night — may fuel an unusually cold region in the atmosphere. Credit: ESA/MPS, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany The hottest planet in the Solar System has a surprisingly cold region high in the planet’s atmosphere, according to new findings by the Venus Express spacecraft. While surface temperatures on this [...]

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Parallax Effect Charted in the 2012 Transit of Venus

September 28, 2012

Combined images taken simultaneously (06 June 2012, 03:46:18 UTC) from Svalbard and Canberra, showing the Venus parallax effect from 2 different locations on Earth, separated by 11600km. Credit: Pérez Ayúcar/Breitfellner Back in the 18th century, astronomers were trying to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun. They used the parallax method during the [...]

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Astrovideo: Klingon Bird of Prey Attacks Venus!

August 16, 2012

Bird of Prey at Venus during Transit of 2012. Credit: John Chumack “Okay, so it’s not a Klingon War Bird,” admits astrophotographer John Chumack, but it is a Sonoran Desert Bird of Prey swooping by Venus’ location in the sky during its transit across the face of the Sun in June 2012. And it is [...]

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