The science return from Venus Express

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Nov 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005esabu.124...24s&link_type=abstract

ESA Bulletin (ISSN 0376-4265), No. 124, p. 24 - 32 (2005)

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Venus: Space Missions

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Since the beginning of the space era, Venus has been an attractive target for planetary scientists. Our nearest planetary neighbour and, in size at least, the Earth's twin sister, Venus was expected to be very similar to our planet. However, the first phase of Venus spacecraft exploration (1962-1985) discovered an entirely different, exotic world hidden behind a curtain of dense cloud. The earlier exploration of Venus included a set of Soviet orbiters and descent probes, the Veneras 4 to 14, the US Pioneer Venus mission, the Soviet Vega balloons and the Venera 15, 16 and Magellan radar-mapping orbiters, the Galileo and Cassini flybys, and a variety of ground-based observations. But despite all of this exploration by more than 20 spacecraft, the so-called "morning star" remains a mysterious world!

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