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The mission

Europe’s first mission to Venus, providing an unprecedented global picture of our nearest planetary neighbour. In particular, it investigated Venus's noxious atmosphere and clouds in detail, and mapped the planet’s surface temperatures.

The journey

  • Launch date: 9 November 2005
  • Launch vehicle: Soyuz-Fregat launcher 
  • Venus arrival: 11 April 2006 
  • Mission end: December 2014
Venus Express
The Moon and Mars seen from Space Station
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How Venus and Mars can teach us about Earth

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Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System

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Electric field at Venus
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Venus has potential – but not for water

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Evidence for active volcanoes on Venus
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Hot lava flows discovered on Venus

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Venus Express aerobraking 2014
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Venus Express goes gently into the night

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Venus Express: up above the clouds so high

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Venus Express aerobraking
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Venus Express rises again

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Visualisation of the Venus Express aerobraking manoeuvre
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Venus Express gets ready to take the plunge

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Venus glory
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Venus glory

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Tracking clouds on Venus
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The fast winds of Venus are getting faster

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Comet-like ionosphere at Venus
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When a planet behaves like a comet

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Is Venus volcanically active?
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Have Venusian volcanoes been caught in the act?

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Venus terminator
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A curious cold layer in the atmosphere of Venus

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Transit of Venus as seen from Canberra, Australia
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Transit of Venus wows astronomers worldwide

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Stellar occultation at Venus
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ESA missions gear up for transit of Venus

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Get ready for the transit of Venus!

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Venus
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Could Venus be shifting gear?

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Stellar occultation at Venus
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ESA finds that Venus has an ozone layer too

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Animation of planet Venus
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Venus holds warning for Earth

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Venus Express finds planetary atmospheres such a drag

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Venus in the ultraviolet
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Was Venus once a habitable planet?

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Venus Express
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Surfing an alien atmosphere

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Venus is alive – geologically speaking

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New map hints at Venus' wet, volcanic past

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Atmospheric investigations by Venus Express
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Watching Venus glow in the dark

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Mars Express
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ESA extends missions studying Mars, Venus and Earth’s magne…

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Interaction between Venus and the solar wind
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Where did Venus’s water go?

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Venus in the ultraviolet
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Venus comes to life at wavelengths invisible to human eyes

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Earth atmosphere’s molecules detected by Venus Express
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Venus Express searching for life – on Earth

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Artist's impression of Venus Express
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First set of Venus Express data goes public

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Wind circulation on Venus
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How windy is it on Venus? Venus Express answers

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Artist's impression of Venus Express
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Closing in on Venus

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Southern hemisphere of Venus in the ultraviolet
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New details on venusian clouds revealed

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Hydroxyl detected in the Venusian atmosphere
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Key molecule discovered in Venus’s atmosphere

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Artist's impression of Venus Express
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Two years of spying on Earth’s twin planet

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Stellar occultation at Venus
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Venus Express reboots the search for active volcanoes on Ve…

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The eye of the hurricane
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The puzzling 'eye of a hurricane' on Venus

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Interaction between Venus and the solar wind
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Mars and Venus are surprisingly similar

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The light and dark of Venus
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The light and dark of Venus

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Molecules in the Venusian atmosphere
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Venus Express seeks out gases below the clouds

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‘A breath of Venus’ - an educational film
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Christmas greetings from Venus – with a new educational film

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Venus Express
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Venus reveals its turbulent atmosphere and water loss

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Venus loses hydrogen through the wake
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Caught in the wind from the Sun

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South polar dipole mosaic
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The restless atmosphere of Venus

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Vertical profiles of pressure on Earth and Venus
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The unexpected temperature profile of Venus’s atmosphere

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Interaction between Venus and the solar wind
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Venus: Earth’s twin planet?

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Interaction between Venus and the solar wind
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Venus: Earth’s twin planet?

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Oxygen airglow over clouds at Venus
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The restless atmosphere - page two

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South polar dipole movie – different view
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The restless atmosphere - page one

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Plasma environment at Venus
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Atmosphere and solar wind

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