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Venus Express

Publication date: 28 November 2007

Authors: Svedhem, H. et al.

Journal: Nature
Year: 2007

Copyright: Nature

Venus Express is the first dedicated mission to Venus in over a decade. It was built by the European Space Agency, launched from Baikonur on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher on 9 November 2005. It arrived at Venus on 11 April 2006 and is in a polar orbit, with a period of ~24 hours. Since arrival its suite of instruments has been collecting data on the atmosphere and magnetosphere. In this focus, eight Letters describe the results obtained so far, while a Progress paper by Svedhem et al. gives an overview of the mission.

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