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Nature 450, 617-618 (29 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450617a; Published online 28 November 2007

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Venus: Express dispatches

Andrew P. Ingersoll1

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The Venus Express mission has returned its first findings on the harsh atmosphere of our sister planet. It's another step towards explaining how Venus turned out so differently from our balmy home.

Venus is the planet closest to Earth not just in distance, but also in mass, radius, density and chemical composition (Fig. 1).

  1. Andrew P. Ingersoll is in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
    Email: api@gps.caltech.edu

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