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Escape stage exploded during Trans-Venus injection; Some pieces re-entered and others remained in Earth orbit — — Venera 9: 4V-1 No. 660: Orbiter and Lander: 8 June 1975: 22 October 1975: 53: Sent back the first (black and white) images of Venus' surface. Landed within a 150-kilometre (93 mi) radius of 31.01° N, 291.64° E.
In 2007, the Venus Express mission confirmed the presence of lightning on Venus, finding that it is more common on Venus than it is on Earth. [35] [36] MESSENGER passed by Venus twice on its way to Mercury. The first time, it flew by on October 24, 2006, passing 3000 km from Venus. As Earth was on the other side of the Sun, no data was recorded ...
Besides being a Venus co-orbital, this Aten asteroid is also a Mercury grazer and an Earth crosser. Zoozve exhibits resonant (or near-resonant) behavior with Mercury, Venus and Earth. [11] [12] It seems to have been co-orbital with Venus for only the last 7,000 years, and is destined to be ejected from this orbital arrangement about 500 years ...
A NASA spacecraft has captured never-before-seen images of Venus, providing stunning views of the hellishly hot surface of the second rock from the sun. Dark side of Venus revealed in new NASA ...
The EnVision Venus explorer will study that planet in unprecedented detail, from inner core to the top of its atmosphere, to help astronomers understand why the hot, toxic world didn’t turn out ...
Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874. [1] They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's ' photographic revolver '.
Declassified photos taken by Cold War-era spy satellites have revealed hundreds of previously unknown Roman-era forts, in what is now Iraq and Syria, a new study found.
Venus Express: 9 November 2005: ESA: Orbiter Successful Entered orbit 11 April 2006. Full communications lost on 28 November 2014 [15] Soyuz-FG/Fregat: Akatsuki: 20 May 2010: JAXA Japan: Orbiter Mostly successful Flew past Venus on 6 December 2010 after failing to enter orbit. Insertion was successfully reattempted on 7 December 2015. Last ...