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Venus Clouds Offer Earth-like Pressure, Sparking Airborne Exploration Plans
space3 days ago

Venus Clouds Offer Earth-like Pressure, Sparking Airborne Exploration Plans

At about 50 kilometres above Venus’ surface, the atmosphere’s pressure and temperature reach Earth-like levels (around 1 atm and 30–75°C), prompting NASA’s HAVOC study to revisit the idea of atmospheric exploration with airships and balloons. While still uninhabitable and not a surface mission, this narrow band in Venus’ clouds could enable long‑term measurements and study of climate and chemistry, offering a different target than Mars for future exploration.

via Space Daily|
#airship#atmosphere#havoc
July 2026 Night Sky: A Month-Long Skywatching Guide
space9 days ago

July 2026 Night Sky: A Month-Long Skywatching Guide

Space.com’s July 2026 Night Sky guide offers a day-by-day roadmap of prime skywatching, from the Summer Triangle and Albireo early in the month to Mars–Uranus in predawn, Venus near Regulus after sunset, and Saturn reappearing with its rings opening wider by month’s end, all alongside a new Moon-forged Perseids window and a lineup of deep-sky targets like M13, M4, M57 and M11. The article also delivers practical observing tips and gear suggestions to help beginners and seasoned stargazers plan a month of celestial viewing across July 1–31.

via Space|
#moon#perseids#saturn
53-Year Orbit Ends as Soviet Venus Probe Kosmos 482 Returns to Earth
space18 days ago

53-Year Orbit Ends as Soviet Venus Probe Kosmos 482 Returns to Earth

Kosmos 482, a Venus-landing capsule from the Soviet Venera program launched in 1972, failed at launch and spent 53 years in Earth orbit before re-entering on 10 May 2025; its titanium descent capsule, built to withstand Venus’ extreme conditions, may have survived re-entry and landed in the eastern Indian Ocean, though no debris has been confirmed; it stands as the last surviving relic of the Soviet Venus program and a remarkable twist in space history.

via The Times of India|
#kosmos-482#reentry#space
America’s accidental Venus lander: the Day Probe outlived its crash
technology20 days ago

America’s accidental Venus lander: the Day Probe outlived its crash

NASA’s 1978 Pioneer Venus Multiprobe released four descent probes designed to study Venus during their fall; the Day Probe hit the surface and continued transmitting for 67 minutes 37 seconds, becoming America’s only Venus lander and likely still on the planet, while orbital missions mapped Venus and paved the way for future US efforts around 2031.

via 19FortyFive|
#day-probe#nasa#pioneer-venus
The Lens Cap That Turned a Venus Landing into a Plastic Experiment
space21 days ago

The Lens Cap That Turned a Venus Landing into a Plastic Experiment

On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Venera 14 lander touched down on Venus, ejected its camera lens cap, and, after photographing the surroundings, lowered its mechanical soil-testing arm onto the discarded cap—yielding a measurement of the cap’s plastic compressibility rather than Venusian rock. The piece uses this mishap to illustrate how Venera’s design aimed to survive Venus’s extreme conditions and how the mission’s data still informs later NASA missions like DAVINCI and VERITAS, making it a notable episode in space exploration history.

via 19FortyFive|
#lens-cap#soviet-union#space
Venus once hosted oceans? New clues point to a watery past and a volcanic turn to a runaway greenhouse
science23 days ago

Venus once hosted oceans? New clues point to a watery past and a volcanic turn to a runaway greenhouse

Some climate models suggest Venus could have harbored liquid water and temperate conditions for up to about two billion years, aided by slow rotation that encouraged cloud cover; later widespread volcanic resurfacing may have vented CO2 and triggered a runaway greenhouse, leaving Venus far hotter than today. The evidence is debated—cloud behavior on a young Venus and the deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio offer clues but no consensus. Next-generation missions (NASA’s DAVINCI and VERITAS, and ESA’s EnVision) aim to study the atmosphere, surface, and history to help settle whether Venus ever had oceans or was always hot.

via Space Daily|
#climate-models#habitable-venus#science
Sunlit occultation: Moon briefly veils Venus in daylight on June 17
space24 days ago

Sunlit occultation: Moon briefly veils Venus in daylight on June 17

On June 17, a rare daytime occultation will have a thin crescent Moon pass in front of Venus across parts of North America in the mid‑afternoon; observers can use binoculars or a telescope but must avoid looking near the Sun, while the Moon serves as a guide to spot Venus (magnitude -4.0) in daylight; the event runs roughly 3:30–5:00 PM EDT, followed by evening views near the Beehive Cluster after sunset.

via Space|
#daytime-sky#moon#occultation
Venus’s First Color Surface Portrait: Venera 13’s 127-Minute Sweep Through Hell
science25 days ago

Venus’s First Color Surface Portrait: Venera 13’s 127-Minute Sweep Through Hell

In March 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander touched down on a basalt plain of Venus, withstood 465°C and ~92 atmospheres, scraped a soil sample, ran a chemical analysis, and transmitted the first color photographs from the surface of another planet, lasting 127 minutes—far longer than its designers expected. Its drill and a lens-cap feature became iconic just as Venera 14 followed with a shorter mission; no Venus surface landers have returned since. The photos and soil data helped shape later planetary science, while the lander remains on Venus, slowly cooked by the hellish environment.

via Space Daily|
#color-photography#planetary-science#science
Daylight Moon Occults Venus in Rare 2026 Sky Show
science25 days ago

Daylight Moon Occults Venus in Rare 2026 Sky Show

On June 17, 2026, the Moon will occult Venus in broad daylight for about 29 seconds, centered around 16:40 EDT, visible from northeastern South America, the Caribbean, the CONUS, northern Mexico and southern Canada before sunset; Venus will be about 38 degrees from the Sun and around magnitude -4, while the Moon is an 11 percent crescent. This is the first of three Venus occultations in 2026 (Sept 14 and Nov 7 are the others), with Mercury near greatest elongation the day before. Plan with IOTA timings or Stellarium to target local times and try daytime video capture, noting autofocus can be tricky.

via ScienceAlert|
#mercury#moon#occultation
Moon-Sized Impact May Have Forged Venus’s Slow Retrograde Spin
space26 days ago

Moon-Sized Impact May Have Forged Venus’s Slow Retrograde Spin

A new presentation argues Venus’s slow retrograde rotation could result from a high-angle, moon-sized impact in its first 50 million years, triggering a magma ocean and melting most of the mantle; depending on the impact specifics, this could evolve into the current rotation while leaving open questions about interior water and Venus’s lack of plate tectonics.

via Universe Today|
#impact#interior#magma-ocean
Thirty Days of Twilight: Venus and Jupiter’s Kolkata Conjunction Collage
space-exploration28 days ago

Thirty Days of Twilight: Venus and Jupiter’s Kolkata Conjunction Collage

Space photographer Soumyadeep Mukherjee compiled a 30-image collage titled “Closer, Everyday,” capturing the apparent approach of Venus and Jupiter in Kolkata’s western sky from May 11 to June 9, using a Nikon Z6II and Sigma 50mm lens across civil, nautical, and astronomical twilight. The composite shows the two planets moving closer in Earth’s sky, culminating in a near-conjunction on June 9 (less than 2 degrees apart), while acknowledging that Venus is actually receding in three-dimensional space. The piece highlights the consistent gear and timing across days and suggests readers explore astrophotography gear and skywatching opportunities.

via Space|
#astrophotography#conjunction#jupiter
Twilight Trio: Mercury, Venus and Jupiter Create Brief 3-Planet Parade
space1 month ago

Twilight Trio: Mercury, Venus and Jupiter Create Brief 3-Planet Parade

Mercury, Venus and Jupiter align low in the western sky just after sunset on June 12 for a brief, visually striking 'planetary parade' that lasts about 30–45 minutes. Venus will be the brightest at first, followed by Mercury and Jupiter as they drift away from the sun. Telescopes can reveal Mercury’s half‑moon and Venus’s gibbous disk, while Jupiter may show cloud belts. For photographers, a wide‑angle lens framing the trio over a landscape (mountains, city skyline, or trees) makes for a dramatic twilight image.

via Space|
#jupiter#mercury#planetary-parade