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Venus’ Polar Vortex Is Surprisingly Wild

Friday, September 24th, 2010 - 14:37:43 - Anuradha Menon

The long-sought double hurricane at Venus’ south pole has disappeared. New images from ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft show that the so-called polar...

Venus Crater Debate Heats Up

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 - 16:06:33 - Ehud Rattner

A tortured, volcanic wasteland, baked by a runaway greenhouse effect, the surface of Venus has clearly had an unpleasant history. But just how...

Was Venus Once a Habitable Planet?
Friday, August 20th, 2010
A new study, published by the European Space Agency (ESA), reports that the planet Venus might have had some oceans in its...

Venus Flytrap in Action
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
The Venus flytrap, or “Dionaea muscipula,” is a carnivorous plant which feeds on the insects it traps between...

NASA Plans to Visit the Sun
Friday, August 8th, 2008
NASA has recently presented its “Solar Probe Plus” mission, which aims to send a spaceship to the Sun. At this stage a...

New Details on Venus' Clouds

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 - 18:43:42 - Iddo Genuth

As ESA's Venus Express orbits our sister planet, new images of the cloud structure of one of the most enigmatic atmospheres of the Solar System...