Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Collection
Title:
Venus: Earth's Cloudy Twin
Credit: Galileo [ http://galileo.jpl.…] Spacecraft, JPL [ http://www.jpl.nasa…], NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/];
Explanation:
This picture by the Galileo spacecraft [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] shows just how cloudy Venus [ http://seds.lpl.ari…] is. Venus [ http://sci.esa.int/…] is very similar to Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] in size and mass - and so is sometimes referred to as Earth's sister planet - but Venus [ http://pds.jpl.nasa…] has a quite different climate. Venus [ http://spacelink.na…]' thick clouds and closeness to the Sun [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] (only Mercury [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] is closer) make it the hottest planet - much hotter than the Earth [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. Humans could not survive there, and no life of any sort has ever been found. When Venus is visible [ http://www.space.co…] it is usually the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. More than 20 spacecraft have visited Venus [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] including Venera 9 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…], which landed on the surface, and Magellan [ http://www.jpl.nasa…], which used radar to peer through the clouds and make a map of the surface [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…]. This visible light picture of Venus [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] was taken by the Galileo spacecraft [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003. Many things about Venus remain unknown, including the cause of mysterious bursts of radio waves [ http://adsabs.harva…].
Credit and Copyright:
Calvin J. Hamilton
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Arizona
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Mercury
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Jupiter
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Venus
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Hamilton
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
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Earth
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Galileo
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Moon
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Sun
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Mercury
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Jupiter
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Venus
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Visible Light
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Magellan
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Venera 9
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spacecraft
original url:
http://antwrp.gsfc.…
UID:
SPD-APOD-ap040516

Venus: Earth's Cloudy Twin Credit: Galileo [ http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/ ] Spacecr…
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