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Venus Express
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Venus Express is the first dedicated mission to Venus in over a decade. It was built by the European Space Agency, launched from Baikonur on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher on 9 November 2005. It arrived at Venus on 11 April 2006 and is in a polar orbit, with a period of ~24 hours. Since arrival its suite of instruments has been collecting data on the atmosphere and magnetosphere. In this focus, eight Letters describe the results obtained so far, while a Progress paper by Svedhem et al. gives an overview of the mission.
Image: ESA © 2007 MPS/IPF-DLR/IDA
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Current Research
NEWS
European mission reports from Venus
Eric Hand
NatureNews 28 November 2007 doi:10.1038/news.2007.297
NEWS FEATURE
The girl next door
Eric Hand
Nature 450, 606–608 (29 November 2007) doi:10.1038/450606a
NEWS AND VIEW
Venus: Express dispatches
Andrew P. Ingersoll.
Nature 450, 617–618 (29 November 2007) doi:10.1038/450617a
PROGRESS
Venus as a more Earth-like planet
Håkan Svedhem, Dmitry V. Titov, Fredric W. Taylor & Olivier Witasse
Nature 450, 629–632 (29 November 2007) doi:10.1038/nature06432
LETTER
Morphology and dynamics of the upper cloud layer of Venus
W. J. Markiewicz et al.
Nature 450, 633–636 (29 November 2007) doi:10.1038/nature06320
LETTER
South-polar features on Venus similar to those near the north pole
G. Piccioni et al.
Nature 450, 637–640 (29 November 2007) doi:10.1038/nature06209
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LETTER
A dynamic upper atmosphere of Venus as revealed by VIRTIS on Venus Express
P. Drossart et al.
Nature 450, 641–645 (29 November 2007) doi:10.1038/nature06140
LETTER
A warm layer in Venus' cryosphere and high-altitude measurements of HF, HCl, H2O and HDO
Jean-Loup Bertaux et al.
Nature 450, 646–649 (29 November 2007) doi:10.1038/nature05974
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LETTER
The loss of ions from Venus through the plasma wake
S. Barabash et al.
Nature 450, 650–653 (29 November 2007) doi:10.1038/nature06434
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LETTER
Little or no solar wind enters Venus' atmosphere at solar minimum
T. L. Zhang et al.
Nature 450, 654–656 (29 November 2007) doi:10.1038/nature06026
LETTER
The structure of Venus' middle atmosphere and ionosphere
M. Pätzold et al.
Nature 450, 657–660 (29 November 2007) doi:10.1038/nature06239
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LETTER
Lightning on Venus inferred from whistler-mode waves in the ionosphere
C. T. Russell et al.
Nature 450, 661–662 (29 November 2007) doi:10.1038/nature05930
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Podcast
Listen to Håkan Svedhem's overview of the Venus mission on this week's Nature Podcast.
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