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Venus Express : Why go to Venus ?
Exploring the Venus greenhouse
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Europe's first spacecraft to Venus, seen here in Baïkonur before launch, will be studying the global dynamics and chemistry of its atmosphere, and how energy is stored and radiates around the still very mysterious planet.
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The first space probes confirmed what ground observations had suspected: a crushingly dense atmosphere, with hurricane-force winds driving layers of thick clouds, obscuring an infernally hot world.
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Victoria Formisano, PFS Principal Investigator
""A horrible planet, with many questions unanswered such as super-rotation & greenhouse effect, from a planetary comparison point of view, we can learn much more.""
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In the 70s and 80s successive Russian and American flyby spacecraft, orbiters, atmospheric probes and landers studied the planet, all highlighting its perhaps greatest paradox.
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Hakan Svedhem, VEX Project scientist ESA
""One of the most exciting problems is to understan