ESA - Venus Express - Archive

ESA title

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

1^st ESA Venus mission
7 instruments
1270 kg launch mass
8 years of operation

Venus Express

Science & Exploration

Tracking a solar eruption through the Solar System

15/08/2017 17051 views 182 likes

Electric field at Venus

Science & Exploration

Venus has potential – but not for water

20/06/2016 15664 views 115 likes

Evidence for active volcanoes on Venus

Science & Exploration

Hot lava flows discovered on Venus

18/06/2015 59621 views 142 likes

Venus Express aerobraking 2014

Science & Exploration

Venus Express goes gently into the night

16/12/2014 38223 views 180 likes

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Venus Express: up above the clouds so high

28/07/2014 15433 views 85 likes

Venus Express aerobraking

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Venus Express rises again

11/07/2014 53319 views 116 likes

Visualisation of the Venus Express aerobraking manoeuvre

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Venus Express gets ready to take the plunge

16/05/2014 38300 views 111 likes

Venus glory

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Venus glory

11/03/2014 22716 views 103 likes

Tracking clouds on Venus

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The fast winds of Venus are getting faster

18/06/2013 28625 views 87 likes

Comet-like ionosphere at Venus

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When a planet behaves like a comet

29/01/2013 19773 views 54 likes

Is Venus volcanically active?

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Have Venusian volcanoes been caught in the act?

03/12/2012 17163 views 44 likes

Venus terminator

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A curious cold layer in the atmosphere of Venus

01/10/2012 17017 views 28 likes

Transit of Venus as seen from Canberra, Australia

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Transit of Venus wows astronomers worldwide

06/06/2012 4781 views 0 likes

Stellar occultation at Venus

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ESA missions gear up for transit of Venus

04/06/2012 3711 views 3 likes

Science & Exploration

Get ready for the transit of Venus!

24/05/2012 2303 views 1 likes

Venus

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Could Venus be shifting gear?

10/02/2012 15501 views 22 likes

Stellar occultation at Venus

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ESA finds that Venus has an ozone layer too

06/10/2011 13642 views 15 likes

Animation of planet Venus

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Venus holds warning for Earth

30/11/2010 25487 views 17 likes

Science & Exploration

Venus Express finds planetary atmospheres such a drag

07/10/2010 3516 views 5 likes

Venus in the ultraviolet

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Was Venus once a habitable planet?

24/06/2010 23105 views 47 likes

Venus Express

Enabling & Support

Surfing an alien atmosphere

21/04/2010 2368 views 1 likes

Science & Exploration

Venus is alive – geologically speaking

08/04/2010 9587 views 24 likes

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New map hints at Venus' wet, volcanic past

14/07/2009 7037 views 7 likes

Atmospheric investigations by Venus Express

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Watching Venus glow in the dark

24/02/2009 4530 views 2 likes

Mars Express

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

10/02/2009 2399 views 0 likes

Interaction between Venus and the solar wind

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Where did Venus’s water go?

18/12/2008 26007 views 30 likes

Venus in the ultraviolet

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Venus comes to life at wavelengths invisible to human eyes

03/12/2008 4714 views 1 likes

Earth atmosphere’s molecules detected by Venus Express

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Venus Express searching for life – on Earth

10/10/2008 5064 views 7 likes

Artist's impression of Venus Express

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First set of Venus Express data goes public

22/09/2008 427 views 0 likes

Wind circulation on Venus

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How windy is it on Venus? Venus Express answers

18/09/2008 11060 views 10 likes

Artist's impression of Venus Express

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Closing in on Venus

17/07/2008 1852 views 1 likes

Southern hemisphere of Venus in the ultraviolet

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New details on venusian clouds revealed

30/05/2008 4566 views 3 likes

Hydroxyl detected in the Venusian atmosphere

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Key molecule discovered in Venus’s atmosphere

15/05/2008 4888 views 2 likes

Artist's impression of Venus Express

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Two years of spying on Earth’s twin planet

11/04/2008 1039 views 3 likes

Stellar occultation at Venus

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Venus Express reboots the search for active volcanoes on Ve…

04/04/2008 2579 views 3 likes

The eye of the hurricane

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The puzzling 'eye of a hurricane' on Venus

13/03/2008 6778 views 2 likes

Interaction between Venus and the solar wind

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Mars and Venus are surprisingly similar

05/03/2008 25587 views 17 likes

The light and dark of Venus

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The light and dark of Venus

21/02/2008 8181 views 8 likes

Molecules in the Venusian atmosphere

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Venus Express seeks out gases below the clouds

04/02/2008 2708 views 1 likes

‘A breath of Venus’ - an educational film

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Christmas greetings from Venus – with a new educational film

18/12/2007 1702 views 2 likes

Venus Express

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Venus reveals its turbulent atmosphere and water loss

29/11/2007 465 views 0 likes

Venus loses hydrogen through the wake

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Caught in the wind from the Sun

28/11/2007 6254 views 0 likes

South polar dipole mosaic

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The restless atmosphere of Venus

28/11/2007 4685 views 5 likes

Vertical profiles of pressure on Earth and Venus

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The unexpected temperature profile of Venus’s atmosphere

28/11/2007 19083 views 8 likes

Interaction between Venus and the solar wind

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Venus: Earth’s twin planet?

28/11/2007 1074 views 0 likes

Interaction between Venus and the solar wind

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Venus: Earth’s twin planet?

28/11/2007 21480 views 16 likes

Venus Express detects evidence of lightning

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Climate and Evolution

28/11/2007 5154 views 1 likes

Oxygen airglow over clouds at Venus

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The restless atmosphere - page two

28/11/2007 880 views 0 likes

South polar dipole movie – different view

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The restless atmosphere - page one

28/11/2007 1347 views 1 likes

Plasma environment at Venus

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Atmosphere and solar wind

28/11/2007 1191 views 0 likes

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