Tagged: venus

We could go to Venus tomorrow with the technology we have today, urged a NASA scientific advisory group, and the group’s members would like to get a mission off the ground as soon as possible. Representatives from the Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG) made a...

NASA is considering a spectacular airship concept for Venus exploration. The space agency’s Systems Analysis and Concepts Directorate (SACD) has posted potential designs of the High Altitude Venus Operational Concept (HAVOC) on its website. The airships have even been compared to a “cloud city” by...

After the moon, Venus is the second-brightest natural object in the night sky. Yet this planet is covered by reflective clouds that naked eyes and optical telescopes can’t penetrate. With the Venusian surface hidden from view, generations of fiction writers used to speculate like crazy...

Astronomers around the world will take advantage of Tuesday’s historic Venus transit to get better at finding and characterizing alien planets. Venus will cross the sun’s face from Earth’s perspective on Tuesday (June 5; Wednesday in much of the Eastern Hemisphere), marking the last such...

STANFORD, Calif. — Venus shouldn’t be dismissed as a possible abode for life, some scientists stress. Sure, the planet’s surface is famously inhospitable today — bone-dry and hot enough to melt lead, with an atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than that of Earth at sea...

After the moon, Venus is the second-brightest natural object in the night sky. Yet this planet is covered by reflective clouds that naked eyes and optical telescopes can’t penetrate. With the Venusian surface hidden from view, generations of fiction writers used to speculate like crazy...

– A huge wave has been spotted in the upper atmosphere of Venus, baffling scientists because it’s staying so still above the planet’s surface. Usually clouds in that region move at about 100 meters (328 feet) per second, whereas this cloud is stationary compared to...