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May 11, 2011 09:14:56 Venus 37' south of Jupiter 25.7° West May 20, 2011 01:17:23 Mercury 2°21' south of Mars 22.2° West May 22, 2011 15:13:00 Venus 1°03' south of Mars 22.7° West August 15, 2011 23:17:56 Mercury 6°21' south of Venus 1.3° West September 30, 2011 11:07:16 Venus 1°24' south of Saturn 11.8° East October 7, 2011 08:58:32
Venus is the second planet from the Sun.It is a terrestrial planet and is the closest in mass and size to its orbital neighbour Earth.Venus has by far the densest atmosphere of the terrestrial planets, composed mostly of carbon dioxide with a thick, global sulfuric acid cloud cover.
Global view of Venus in ultraviolet light done by Mariner 10. The first successful flyby Venus probe was the American Mariner 2 spacecraft, which flew past Venus in 1962, coming within 35,000 km. A modified Ranger Moon probe, it established that Venus has practically no intrinsic magnetic field and measured the temperature of the planet's ...
While Venus and the crescent moon will be closest on December 4, they will still catch your eye on the evenings of December 5 and 6, per EarthSky. Throughout December, Venus will move higher and ...
The bright star just above the horizon is actually planet Venus. Venus is the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon. Articles this image appears in Orionids Creator Mbz1. Support as nominator Mbz1 02:50, 31 October 2007 (UTC) Comment I know the image is very, very noisy. I used ISO 1600 otherwise it is hard to capture a meteor with a ...
Missions to Venus constitute part of the exploration of Venus. The Soviet Union , followed by the United States , have soft landed probes on the surface. Venera 7 was the first lander overall and first for the Soviet Union, touching down on 15 December 1970.
42 Draconis is the closest star to the north pole of Venus. Eta¹ Doradus is the closest to its south pole. (Note: The IAU uses the right-hand rule to define a positive pole for the purpose of determining orientation. Using this convention, Venus is tilted 177° ("upside down"), and the positive pole is instead the south pole.) [10]
One way to do mapping on Venus and characterization on the geological units on Venus is by the stratigraphic classification scheme. [15] Mikhail A. Ivano and James W. Head (2011) mapped the area of geotraverses at 30°N [16] and 0°N. They traced and discussed the global spatial distribution of rock-stratigraphic units and structure, and ...