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Express dispatches

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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.

The European Space Agency's Venus Express probe was launched in November 2005 to address some big issues associated with this question. Where is Venus's water, and what is its history? What is the weather like on Venus, and is it different from that on Earth? What does the precise composition of Venus's atmosphere tell us about its evolution? The first results from Venus Express are presented in eight papers elsewhere in this issue1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8.

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Figure 2: Ocean of air.

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