#PPOD: Venus's surface as seen by Venera-14, a Soviet space mission launched in 1981. The lander touched down on 5 March 1982 and survived about an hour on the surface, nearly double the planned life. With a temperature of 465 °C and a pressure 94 times as strong as that of Earth, our "twin" planet is not at all hospitable to humans or machines. Credit: Roscosmos; Image processing: Ted Stryk
Depending on where you are, if the sky is clear enough, find the sliver of the moon, then look left and slightly up from it and you’ll see Venus. It’s cool to see. 🌘 #LookUp#space#Venus
Another picture from my recent sojourn at Mount John. Venus at its brightest gleaming balefully over the largest optical telescope in New Zealand. Mars is just above! #venus#mars#NewZealand
Thanks to a poorly chosen font and some good natured fun, the The International Astronomical Union has officially named Venus' quasi-moon 2002VE as 'Zoozve'.
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has modeled the early impact history of Venus to explain how Earth's sister planet has maintained a youthful surface despite lacking plate tectonics. The team compared the early collision histories of the two bodies and determined that Venus likely experienced higher-speed, higher-energy...
Conjunction of a crescent moon and the planet Venus on a lightly overcast night on 12/28/2019 as seen through the second floor window of an officer's quarter's ruin at Fort Churchill, Nevada State Park. (This shot is as it was, however, it is a focus stack of two images.)
New study suggests some forms of life could exist in Venus's sulfuric acid clouds.
Phys.org reports: "Prior research has suggested that if there is any kind of life form living on Venus, it would likely not be on the surface (it is far too hot) but in the clouds, where temperatures are closer to those found on Earth."
🦁🐍 March 29th is one of the ancient festivals of #Ishtar/#Inanna, goddess of fertility, love, war and righteous vengeance. She rules the planet #Venus. She is often accompanied by lions and serpents. You want her on your side 4SURE! 🦁🐍
#eng - Marble statue of Aphrodite, Roman, Imperial period, 1st or 2nd century A.D. Copy of Greek statue of the 3rd or 2nd century B.C., #ita - statua di marmo rappresentante Venere, II - I sec.a.C., copia romana di un originale greco.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Researchers find ancient, high-energy impacts could have fueled Venus volcanism (phys.org)
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has modeled the early impact history of Venus to explain how Earth's sister planet has maintained a youthful surface despite lacking plate tectonics. The team compared the early collision histories of the two bodies and determined that Venus likely experienced higher-speed, higher-energy...