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2 days ago · Japan's first space probe launched in May 21, 2010, aboard an H2-A rocket heading for Venus. It entered the planet's orbit by Dec. 7, 2015 after a previous attempt in 2010.
3 days ago · The $300 million spacecraft launched in 2010 and had a less than stellar start to its mission, failing to enter orbit around Venus due to a failure of its main engine.
2 days ago · Because Venus’s orbit lies within Earth’s, the planet exhibits phases like those of the Moon when viewed from Earth. In fact, the discovery of these phases by the Italian scientist Galileo in 1610 was one of the most important in the history of astronomy.
- Venus and Earth share similarities in their masses, sizes, densities, and relative locations in the solar system. Since they were presumably formed...
- Venus orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 108 million km (67 million miles), which is about 0.7 times Earth's distance from the Sun.
- When viewed through a telescope, Venus presents a brilliant yellow-white and a featureless face to the observer. Its obscured appearance results fr...
- Venus's mean radius is 6,051.8 km (3,760.4 miles), or about 95 percent of Earth's at the Equator, while its mass is 4.87 × 1024 kg, or 81.5 percent...
- Venus has the most massive atmosphere of all the terrestrial planets. Its gaseous envelope is composed of more than 96 percent carbon dioxide and 3...
2 days ago · On 15 December 1970, Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to soft land on another planet and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth. In 1974, Mariner 10 swung by Venus to bend its path towards Mercury and took ultraviolet photographs of the clouds, revealing the extraordinarily high wind speeds in the Venusian atmosphere.
4 days ago · The Pioneer Venus Orbiter launched on 20 May 1978 at 13:13:00 UT on an Atlas-Centaur from Cape Canaveral. It traveled to Venus on a Type II trajectory, with two small trajectory correction maneuvers on June 1 and November 2. It reached Venus and went into orbit on 4 December 1978 at 15:58 UT.
4 days ago · VERITAS. NSSDCA ID: VERITAS. Description. VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio science, Insar, Topography, And Spectroscopy) is a Discovery class mission planned to orbit Venus and return data for four Venus rotations (roughly 2 1/2 Earth years).
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2 days ago · Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn were identified by ancient Babylonian astronomers in the 2nd millennium BC. They were correctly identified as orbiting the Sun by Aristarchus of Samos , and later in Nicolaus Copernicus ' heliocentric system [8] ( De revolutionibus orbium coelestium , 1543)
