Podcast appearances and mentions of Venus Express

Spaceflight News— Broken records and Starship's near future (nasaspaceflight.com) (spacenews.com) (nasaspaceflight.com)Short & Sweet— New Shepard Plans Crewed Flight (spacenews.com)— Lunar Rover Mk 2 (spacenews.com)This Week in Spaceflight History— April 11, 2006: Arrival of Venus Express at Venus (en.wikipedia.org) (PDF: sci.esa.int VIA sci.esa.int)— Next week (4/16 - 4/22) in 1975: Add four to 100, multiply by eight, and then add 62,000

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org Today's 2 topics: - We will probably never know the details of the collision that put my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls' recent discovery, 2016 HD3, on its current path. What we do know is that Carson's new space rock is about 25 feet in diameter and in the next 100 years will make 53 close approaches to planet Earth and 12 to our sister planet Venus. In 2016 this small object passed to near both the Earth and our Moon. It's 322 day orbit around the Sun can someday bring it to about a quarter of the Moon's distance from where we live. - More than 25 years ago Voyager 1 took a picture of the Earth from beyond Pluto's orbit. This image shows our home planet to be an isolated tiny pale blue dot floating in the vastness of space.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.

We will probably never know the details of the collision that put my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls' recent discovery, 2016 HD3, on its current path. What we do know is that Carson's new space rock is about 25 feet in diameter and in the next 100 years will make 53 close approaches to planet Earth and 12 to our sister planet Venus. In 2016 this small object passed to near both the Earth and our Moon. It's 322 day orbit around the Sun can someday bring it to about a quarter of the Moon's distance from where we live.

Además de la Magallanes, otras sondas han sobrevolado Venus en ruta hacia otros destinos para incrementar su velocidad mediante su impulso gravitacional. El 10 de febrero de 1990 la sonda Galileo sobrevoló Venus a una distancia de 16.000 Km en su camino hacia Júpiter. La sonda Cassini, en su viaje en dirección a Saturno, sobrevoló Venus en dos ocasiones: la primera en abril de 1998, a 234 Km, y la segunda en junio de 1999, a 600 Km. Durante el examen de la emisión de radiofrecuencias de Venus con sus instrumentos de ondas de radio y plasma en los dos sobrevuelos de la Cassini de 1998 y 1999, se observó que no existían ondas en el rango de frecuencias de 0'125 a 16 MHz, bandas que generalmente se asocian a los relámpagos. Esto entraba en contradicción directa con las observaciones de las sondas Venera de veinte años antes. Ante una hipotética ausencia de relámpagos en Venus, se ha conjeturado con algún tipo de actividad eléctrica de baja frecuencia, puesto que las señales de radio no pueden atravesar la ionosfera en frecuencias por debajo de 1 Megahercio. Donald Gurnett, físico de la Universidad de Iowa, observó que las emisiones de radio captadas por la sonda Galileo durante su maniobra de asistencia gravitacional en 1990 revelaron lo que en ese momento se interpretó como indicios de relámpagos. Sin embargo, la sonda Galileo pasó a una distancia 60 veces mayor de Venus que la sonda Cassini, por lo que sus observaciones son sustancialmente menos significativas. Hasta el año 2007 la actividad eléctrica en forma de relámpagos en la atmósfera de Venus siguió siendo un misterio. El 9 de noviembre de 2005 la Agencia Espacial Europea lanzó la sonda Venus Express con objeto de estudiar la atmósfera y las características de la superficie de Venus desde su órbita. Venus Express empezó a enviar imágenes del planeta el 11 de abril de 2006. Uno de los objetivos de esta misión es realizar una cartografía completa de las temperaturas en la superficie del planeta. Los primeros resultados fueron publicados en la revista Nature el 29 de noviembre de 2007. Incluían datos sobre el pasado de la atmósfera de Venus (más rica en agua), el descubrimiento de un vórtice dipolar en la región polar sur y la presencia de relámpagos eléctricos en las nubes de ácido sulfúrico del planeta al detectarse ondas de radio electromagnéticas de muy baja frecuencia en la banda de las generadas por los relámpagos. Inicialmente estaba previsto que la misión Venus Express durara unos 500 días terrestres, pero en febrero de 2007 se decidió prolongar hasta inicios del año 2009. El 4 de febrero de 2009 la Agencia Espacial Europea extendió el periodo de operaciones hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2009​ y el 7 de octubre de 2009 decidió prolongar nuevamente la misión hasta el 31 de diciembre de 2012,​ fecha que nuevamente fue retrasada hasta diciembre de 2014, cuando finalmente se dio a la misión por oficialmente concluida. El 20 de mayo de 2010 la Agencia Japonesa de Exploración Espacial inició su propia misión a Venus, llamada inicialmente PLANET-C (o Venus Climate Orbiter), actualmente conocida como Akatsuki. Se había previsto que se situara en una órbita de entre 300 y 80.000 Km de altura para complementar los datos obtenidos por la Venus Express y realizar un mapeado de la superficie usando una cámara infrarroja, además de llevar diversos experimentos para determinar el posible vulcanismo actual en la superficie del planeta e intentar detectar la presencia y frecuencia de rayos y otros fenómenos eléctricos en la atmósfera de Venus. Por su parte, Rusia ha planteado la misión Venera-D, cuyo lanzamiento está programado para 2024. Jameson Nathan Jones, The Great Northern, Hendekagon, Dystopiker & Nyppy, Ethereal Planes, The Lovely Moon, AstroPilot & Spacecraft, Meg Bowles, Endless Melancholy, Altus, AES DANA, Suso Saiz, Howard Givens & Craig Padilla, SoLaRiS, Aleks Michalski. El playlist detallado con enlaces a las audiciones íntegras de cada álbum: lostfrontier.org/episodios/2023/1000.

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Autonomous weapons, challenging environments and climate surveillance + this day in history w/Venus Express and our song of the day by Unbound on your Morning Monarchy for November 9, 2021.

En 2010, l'instrument VIRTIS (Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) de la sonde européenne Venus Express avait observé pour la première fois des anomalies d'émissivité en infra-rouge au-dessus du sommet et du flanc de Idunn Mons, un volcan vénusien de 200 km de large situé dans l'Imdr Regio, une grande région volcanique de Vénus. Les anomalies suggèrent la présence de dépôts volcaniques chimiquement non altérés, ce qui avait fourni un premier indice que le volcanisme dans cette région a pu être actif au cours des derniers millions d'années. Dans une nouvelle étude plus approfondie qui vient de paraître dans The Planetary Science Journal, des planétologues suggèrent que le mont Idunn pourrait être géologiquement actif à la fois sur le plan volcanique et tectonique en ce moment même...

据美国宇航局太空网报道，法国科学家们最近发现了过去的极端环境是如何影响植被把阳光反射到太空中的。这些结果将为他们寻找远古生命带来希望。　　从远处看，我们的地球只是太空中的一个光斑。虽然我们已经把无线电信号发射到太空中，希望潜在的宇宙生命能够接收到，但是这些信号传播的距离都不超过几十光年。然而人类在数百万年间一直在向宇宙发送信号，表明他们的存在。陆生植物发射很强的红外线，结果使这些光在地球表面不断反射的过程中出现与众不同的特征，该特征被称作植被红边(VRE)。　　法国上普罗旺斯天文台(Haute Provence observatory)的鲁克·阿诺德表示：“我们从早期的研究工作得知，虽然在同一时代的光谱中可以看到植被，但是不知道是不是只有当地球的温度比现在更冷时，才可以看到植被？”　　阿诺德和他的同事们已经获得最近冰河时期和最近的温暖时期的气候模式，并利用它们生成过去的地球反射光谱。他们的研究结果显示，在数千年间，植被红边一直保持相对稳定状态。该研究结果将发表在即将出版的《天体生物学》杂志上。　　遥望地球　　“阿波罗”号宇航员用他们的照相机给地球拍照，让我们第一次了解到从太空看地球到底是个什么样子。但是从更加遥远的地方看，陆地和海洋融为一体，剩下的只是一个淡蓝色斑点。几艘飞船——最近的是欧洲航天局的“金星快车”(Venus Express)——从太阳系的不同角度观察了地球。　　这些“自画像”并不只是一部分世人的自恋。这些照片将引出一个非常重要的科学问题：从远处看，一个充满生命的行星到底是个什么样子？　　飞船收集的数据，以及从月球上收集的地(球反)照(earth shine)数据显示，从地球上反射出来的光谱中存在生命迹象。例如，氧和甲烷等气体产生的吸收线为我们提供了一些生物存在的证据。更有说服力的一点是，在光谱700纳米的地方出现的微小凹陷，表明这里的反射突然变得更强，光线波长变得更长。　　这个位于可见光和红外线之间的边界是由光合植物造成。植物吸收可见光谱，阳光的大部分能量都分布在这个光谱范围内。然而，据推测，植被可能是为了不使自己过热，它们将红外线重新反射到太空中。　　过去的气候　　由于被植被覆盖，地球反射的红外线比它不被植被覆盖反射的红外线多5%。阿诺德和他的同事们因此想弄明白，是否在地球的一个冰期，这些微小的植被红外信号保持可见状态。他们集中精力研究上次冰期极盛期(Last Glacial Maximum)，这个时期发生在21000年前。这个时期的温度平均比现在低大约4摄氏度，冰盖覆盖了整个加拿大和北部欧洲。　　作为对比，他们还研究了6000年前的一个被称作全新世适宜期(HO)的温暖时期，当时的平均气温比现在高大约半摄氏度，当时撒哈拉沙漠地带的植被非常茂密。阿诺德说：“上次冰期极盛期和全新世适宜期是两个极端时期，我们对这两个时期已经有了很好的了解。”这些研究人员利用古气候模式，确定在这两个极端时期地球上各个地点的苔原、热带森林和沙漠等生物群落。每个生物群落都在太空中呈现不同的光谱。欧洲航天局的全球臭氧监测实验(GOME)卫星已经飞越地球上的所有生物群落，并记录了它们的反射情况。　　该科研组通过将生物群落图片、卫星数据跟云量和海冰模型结合在一起，生成了地球全球平均光谱图。研究结果显示，上次冰期极盛期的植被红边信号比现在弱大约4%，在全新世适宜期，这种信号比现在强大约6%。阿诺德说：“最主要的问题是，在极端气候下，植被仍然可见。”这一研究结果将对致力于寻找类似地球的系外行星，并刻画它们的特征的未来太空任务产生激励作用。　　外星生命扎根　　天体生物学家一直在思考是否通过光谱信号会发现其他行星上的生命。该假设认为，生活在一个围绕类似我们的太阳的恒星运转的行星上的类地生物体，可能进化出跟地球上的生物体类似的吸收-反射方式。　　阿诺德说：“如果我们发现一个明显不是矿物或者矿物混合物产生的显著特征，这可能是一个生命迹象。”阿诺德和他的同事们总结说，在30光年以外可以发现植被红边信号，即使它当前正在经历一个类似上次冰期极盛期的寒冷时期也不例外。然而阿诺德表示，比这更加寒冷的气候可能会使这些信号消失。　　植被红边探测设想了一个6米长的太空望远镜和2到4周的曝光时间。但是现在并没有这种望远镜，不过目前正处于设计阶段的“类地行星发现者”号(Terrestrial Planet Finder，简称TPF)也许能满足上述要求。阿诺德说：“我认为我们的论文显示，如果类地行星的陆地上存在植被，那么即使在比平均气候更加寒冷的环境下，这些植被仍然是可以看到的。”

Venus: El Planeta Olvidado por Misiones Espaciales. En este programa grabado de “Obsesión por el Cielo” Edgar y Pedro hacen un recuento histórico de las misiones espaciales que han explorado nuestro vecino planeta: Venus. En realidad, no son muchas, sobre todo si lo comparamos con el número de misiones espaciales al planeta Marte. En las décadas de 1960 y 1970 las primeras misiones de exploración a Venus de los Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética fueron sobrevuelos, y algunas sondas atmosféricas con los primeros aterrizajes en la superficie. Entre las misiones exitosas de la NASA contamos con los Mariner 2, 5 y 10; mientras que las misiones soviéticas exitosas fueron las Venera (que significa “Venus”) 4 al 12. El primero orbitador de Venus fue el Pioneer Venus de la NASA en 1978-92 que realizó el primer mapa de radar de la superficie del planeta. Sin embargo, el mejor mapa de radar fue de la nave espacial Magellan de la NASA (1990-94). Los soviéticos seguían mandando pares de naves espaciales a Venus (Venera 13-16 & Vega 1-2) para estudiar la atmósfera y la superficie del planeta. La primera sonda de la Agencia Espacial Europea en estudiar Venus fue el orbitador Venus Express en 2006-14, mientras que los japoneses (JAXA) lograron orbitar a Venus en el 2015 después de un intento fallido en el 2010. A la fecha, Akatsuki es la única nave espacial activa en Venus. Entre estos últimos esfuerzos no contamos con los sobrevuelos de las naves espaciales Galileo, Cassini y Messenger que tenían como intención visitar Venus, no para estudiarlo, sino para obtener una asistencia gravitacional en su camino a otros planetas del Sistema Solar. Viendo al futuro, hay pocos proyectos con dinero asignado para explorar a nuestro vecino planeta. Además de nuestra sección semanal de noticias, ofrecemos nuestra sección de “Los Premios Astronómicos de Obsesión por el Cielo” en la que premiamos a las noticias más y menos relevantes para el mes de Marzo del año 2020. Esperamos que disfruten del programa.

UVA is still the National Champion, we're still talking about space. We start things off by highlighting Katie Bouman for her role in collecting images of black holes. Then, we move on to the second closest planet to the Sun, Venus. We talk about Venus's retrograde rotation, long day, and the patriarchy. We compare and contrast Venus and Earth on many different fronts, including surface temperature, atmosphere (specifically Argon), magnetic fields and soil composition. We also highlight some potential reasons that Venus doesn't have water in any form, specifically discussing the role of “runaway greenhouse effect”, solar wind, and an electric field. Then, we deep dive into the history of Venus expeditions. We start things off discussing the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States - best highlighted by the Mariner 2, Venera 4, and the Mariner 5. We discuss some of the major findings in 1978 from the Pioneer Venus 1 and 2 spacecrafts from NASA and Venera 11 and 12 from the Soviet Union. Venera 13 and 14 took the first color photographs of Venus in 1981. Since the 1990s, the Magellan, Venus Express, Akatski and BepiColombo have all either visited or flown by Mars.

In questa puntata parliamo di Venere e di come i dati della (fu) sonda Venus Express potrebbero aver aiutato a risolvere uno strano mistero di questo pianeta nostro vicino di casa.

In questa puntata parliamo di Venere e di come i dati della (fu) sonda Venus Express potrebbero aver aiutato a risolvere uno strano mistero di questo pianeta nostro vicino di casa.

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Stream episodes on demand from www.bitesz.com and www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com (both mobile friendly). *Recently active lava flows detected on Venus A new analysis of data from the European Space Agency's Venus Express mission has found evidence of volcanic activity on Earth’s sister planet. The findings add to a growing body of evidence that Venus may still be geologically active. The origin of Rosetta’s comet A new study claims Rosetta’s comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko most likely originated in the Kuiper Belt. This distant origin for 67P implies it would be made from primordial material, that existed in their current form since before Earth was born. Soyuz trio return safely to Earth Three expedition 49 crew members have returned safely to Earth following their 115 day mission aboard the International Space Station. The successful landing was also the first atmospheric re-entry of the new Russian Soyuz MS-01 capsule which had been on its maiden flight. China ready to fly its new Long March 5. There’s growing evidence that China is getting ready to fly its new Long March 5 heavy lift rocket for the first time. The new heavyweight launcher is capable of lifting over 25 tonnes into low Earth orbit -- that’s more than the European Space Agency’s Ariane 5 ECA and roughly as much as the United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV heavy. If you're enjoying SpaceTime, please help out by sharing and telling your friends. The best recommendation I can get is one from you. Thank you... #astronomy #space #technology #science #news #venus #soyuz #rosetta #exploration  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/spacetime. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week Josh returns to talk game consoles, Venus Express, new Macs, artificially intelligent writing, flying robots, NFL IT, and monkeys with rocks. Plus, Josh reviews the new Japanese Godzilla and scares up some new horror on TV. Happy Halloween!

In una ricerca del 30 giugno scorso nuovi particolari hanno accresciuto il ritratto di Venere e si devono alle osservazioni della sonda dell’ ESA Venus Express che ha fatto accurate indagini sulla spessa coltre di nubi, riuscendo a cogliere informazioni preziose anche sulla superficie del pianeta. Quindi per la prima volta è stato possibile stabilire una correlazione tra condizioni atmosferiche e superficie di Venere.

In una ricerca del 30 giugno scorso nuovi particolari hanno accresciuto il ritratto di Venere e si devono alle osservazioni della sonda dell’ ESA Venus Express che ha fatto accurate indagini sulla spessa coltre di nubi, riuscendo a cogliere informazioni preziose anche sulla superficie del pianeta. Quindi per la prima volta è stato possibile stabilire una correlazione tra condizioni atmosferiche e superficie di Venere.

Des mesures de la sonde Venus Express viennent de donner une explication à l'absence d'eau sur la planète sœur de la Terre : tout viendrait du champ électrique découvert dans son atmosphère.

A small asteroid makes frequent visits to near Earth and Venus.

A small asteroid makes frequent visits to near Earth and Venus.

La sonde européenne Venus Express a fini sa mission à l'été 2014 quand elle fut à cours de carburant. Juste avant d'être envoyée dans l'atmosphère de Vénus pour y brûler, elle a fourni des dernières données inédites sur l'atmosphère vénusienne.

Ever gone bungee jumping on Venus?  Of course not.  No one has.  However your great-great-great grandchildren might find themselves packing for the cloudy planet … or for another locale in our cosmic backyard.  That’s what we picture as we accelerate our imagination to escape velocity and beyond – and tour vacation spots that are out of this world.  An enormous mountain and an impressive canyon await you on Mars.  If the outer solar system is more your thing, consider making a ten minute free-fall on Miranda, a moon of Uranus, or step up to the challenge of playing catch on an asteroid.  Also, just opened up: Pluto. A member of the New Horizons science team describes why the dwarf planet could be a holiday haven.  Bring your crampons for ice climbing! Guests: •   Andrew Fraknoi – Chair of the astronomy department, Foothill College •   Lori Fenton - Planetary scientist, SETI Institute  •   David Grinspoon – Astrobiologist, author of Venus Express •   Mark Showalter – Planetary scientist, SETI institute, and member of the New Horizons team •   Michael Busch – Planetary scientist, SETI Institute

The  second of three special editions of Little Atoms from Mind’s Eye, an audio installation at Brighton Digital Festival, featuring a number of interviews with space people. The second show features interviews with Sandra Cauffman, Deputy Project Manager of MAVEN, Hakan Svedhem, Project Scientist on Venus Express, and Dr Katherine Joy of the University of […] See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Venus Express Project Scientist Håkan Svedhem tells us about the spacecraft’s harrowing descent into the Venusian atmosphere, what it is currently up to, and what he’d like to see next at that forbidding planet.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wild animals love exercise wheels, New dwarf planet discovered, and Venus Express takes a dive by Ian Woolf George Dyke speaks with Ian Woolf about Earth Observation satellites and drones at OrbitOz. Produced and presented by Ian Woolf Support Diffusion by downloading a free audio book from http://www.audibletrial.com/science

Die Venus ist trotz ihrer Nähe zur Erde ein vergleichsweise wenig erforschter Planet, der die Wissenschaft aber trotzdem vor große Fragen und die Raumfahrt vor große Herausforderungen stellt: die extreme Atmosphäre des Planeten verspricht Erkenntnisse in der Klimaforschung und macht jede Annäherung eines Raumfahrzeugs zu einem riskanten Manöver. Um die wissenschaftliche Erkundung voranzubringen hat die ESA 2005 die Mission Venus Express gestartet, um mit einer Vielzahl an Instrumenten neue Daten und Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen. Venus Express baut auf  für die Missionen Rosetta und Mars Express entwickelten Technologien auf und konnte daher in Rekordzeit auf die Beine gestellt werden: nur drei Jahre vergingen von der ersten Planung bis zum Start der Mission, die seit 2006 erfolgreich die Venus umrundet.

Several space missions of planetary exploration are currently underway, including Venus Express and Mars Express to our planetary neighbours and Cassini-Huygens to Saturn. In this talk, we will look at some of the results from these missions. Remarkably, these distant bodies can also tell us more about our own planet. Will the greenhouse effect run away here as it has at Venus, or might severe climate change happen as at Mars? Does Titan really show us what prebiotic Earth was like? We will also look at possible future space missions to these bodies.

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Venus Express is the first mission dedicated to the study of the composition and dynamics of the planet’s atmosphere. The European orbiter has identified broad meteorological regimes, all influenced by the gigantic hurricane-like vortices at the poles. From these double-eyed vortices, swirling in the atmosphere, around the planet in just a couple of days, to smoother streams at mid-latitudes and wave-dominated phenomena at lower latitudes - these regimes are, surprisingly, clearly delineated. The spacecraft’s elongated orbit has allowed its instruments, notably the VMC camera and the VIRTIS imaging spectrometer, to obtain long-shot views of the planet’s weather patterns, mosaics showing different types of cloud formation and wind speeds, varying according to altitude and latitude. Venus Express has obtained much information on the composition and physical processes active in the atmosphere, and has been able to measure the loss of molecules, stripped away by the solar wind. Rates of oxygen depletion are still being calculated but some tentative conclusions are being advanced. Venus Express has also probably brought the final answer to the controversy about the presence of lightening. The venusian picture is still far from complete. The European mission which has now been prolonged to the end of 2008, is pursuing its harvest of data, allowing scientists to better understand the precise reasons why, compared to our planet, Venus has become so inhospitable.ESApod video programme

French scientist Jean-Loup Bertaux oversees the Ultraviolet and Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer on Venus Express. After the first month in nominal orbit, he's already found haze much higher in the thick Venusian atmosphere than expected, as well as fantastic evidence for heavy water, which could help determine how much water was on Venus at the start.ESApod audio programme

Giuseppe Piccioni is co-Principal Investigator for the VIRTIS science team. The instrument's initial results are helping scientists create a detailed, 3-dimensional map of the Venusian atmosphere. Knowledge of atmospheric composition will help determine if volcanoes are active on the surface.ESApod audio programme

ESA Project Scientist Hakan Svedhem on the first-ever clear views of a mysterious vortex taken during Venus Express' initial capture orbit. The orbit was a not-to-be-repeated opportunity to image the hothouse planet in a wide field of view as Venus Express looped below the southern pole.ESApod audio programme

The Planetary Society's Emily Lakdawalla reports on the arrival of Venus Express; Cassini Deputy Project Scientist Linda Spilker has news from Saturn.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Confirmation that Venus Express had successfully entered orbit came from ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, in Germany, today at 11:12 CEST. After a tense engine burn and blackout while the spacecraft swung behind Venus, mission controllers re-established the radio telemetry link with Venus Express marking successful arrival at the planet. ESApod video programme

ESAPod goes to the heart of Venus Express and meets with a veteran ESA operations engineer in the mission control centre. The large, well-equipped Main Control Room enables flight controllers to work as a focussed team during critical events and gives them the central facilities they need to communicate with support teams worldwide. ESApod audio programme

"If something goes wrong, it could either fly by Venus or hit the planet." The Venus Express Project Manager, Don McCoy, recently spoke to ESAPod on the intense preparations for the critical April 11th orbit insertion. He says ESA mission control teams are well prepared for arrival. ESApod audio programme

Gathering data from above Venus' thick atmosphere is very difficult. A remarkable series of spectral windows allow Venus Express instruments to 'see' through to the surface. The existence of these spectral windows was unknown until the early 1980s when they were discovered, as many key scientific phenomena are, by chance. ESApod audio programme

Venus Express is being telecommanded via the 35-meter deep-space station in Cebreros, Spain, the newest station to join ESA's global ESTRACK network. Cebreros communicates at X-band Gigaherz radio frequencies, far higher than commercial FM radio frequencies and similar to the ultrahigh frequencies used by mobile phones. ESApod audio programme

Navigating Venus Express is a devilishly difficult problem as computations must take into account all sources of gravity working on the spacecraft. ESA scientists use good old-fashioned classical physics first clarified by Newton, Kepler and others some 400 years ago. ESApod audio programme

Earth's surface has been renewed over the eons by plate tectonics, volcanism and other processes. But Venus does not appear to have tectonic plate activity. What is certain is that the surface of Venus has been shaped by deformation of the crust and volcanic activity. Venus volcanism indicates that, at least in the past, the crust was laying on a liquid mantle, as on Earth. The key question is, are volcanoes still active on Venus today?ESApod audio programme

In Part 5 of ESApod's special Venus Express series, we speak with Dr Gerhard Schwehm about the instruments onboard Venus Express and how scientific data can be gathered by planetary missions remotely from above. ESApod audio programme

Answering all your burning science, technology and medicine questions this week are Drs Chris, Dave and Phil, who will be looking at why purifying seawater is not the answer to water shortages, how 3D glasses work and whether a man on a meteor would have to hold on tight or just soak up the stellar scenery. Also on the show, Daniel Scuka at the European Space Agency provides a Venus Express update, Diana Liverman talks about how to turn down the heat on climate change, and in Kitchen Science Anna Lacey finds out why we hear strange voices when we play old records backwards.

Answering all your burning science, technology and medicine questions this week are Drs Chris, Dave and Phil, who will be looking at why purifying seawater is not the answer to water shortages, how 3D glasses work and whether a man on a meteor would have to hold on tight or just soak up the stellar scenery. Also on the show, Daniel Scuka at the European Space Agency provides a Venus Express update, Diana Liverman talks about how to turn down the heat on climate change, and in Kitchen Science Anna Lacey finds out why we hear strange voices when we play old records backwards. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Answering all your burning science, technology and medicine questions this week are Drs Chris, Dave and Phil, who will be looking at why purifying seawater is not the answer to water shortages, how 3D glasses work and whether a man on a meteor would have to hold on tight or just soak up the stellar scenery. Also on the show, Daniel Scuka at the European Space Agency provides a Venus Express update, Diana Liverman talks about how to turn down the heat on climate change, and in Kitchen Science Anna Lacey finds out why we hear strange voices when we play old records backwards. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Venus suffers from a runaway Greenhouse Effect responsible for transforming Earth's near-twin into one of the Solar System's most hellish places. Venus Express aims to unlock the mysteries behind this atmospheric collapse and gather data that scientists will use to better understand the Earth and Mars -- and whether life could exist in other solar systems. ESApod audio programme

In Part 2 of ESApod's special Venus Express series, we cover the Venus Amateur Observing Project, a unique proposal to engage amateur astronomers in observing Venus. The aim is to help scientists validate Venus Express data and gather scientifically useful images to complement the spacecraft's observations of the planet. ESApod audio programme

Venus, the 'Morning Star', is our closest planetary neighbour. Similar to Earth in size and mass, scientists once thought it should be a lot like our planet. Instead, Venus is entirely different, hidden by dense clouds of noxious gases, with a crushing surface pressure and burning-hot temperatures. Why did a planet apparently so similar to Earth evolve in a way so radically different over the last four thousand million years? How has an alien Greenhouse Effect contributed to atmospheric collapse? And are volcanoes still active today on the grim surface? These are just some of the mysteries Venus Express will attempt to unlock. ESApod audio programme

At 04:33 CET this morning, Venus Express was launched on a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from Baikonur, Kazakhstan; mission control operated from ESOC, ESA's Space Operations Centre, in Darmstadt, Germany. Today's ESApod includes audio clips from the communications loop used by flight controllers and includes the Flight Operations Director's pre-launch GO-NOGO "Roll-Call" (held at 03:38 CET) as well as an interview with Ground Segment Manager Manfred Warhaut from the Main Control Room. ESApod audio programme

Venus Express Project Scientist Håkan Svedhem talks about the first mission to the mysterious planet in more than a decade. Q&A on Jupiter's Great Red Spot and other storms. What's Up announces TWO new space contests.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices