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Sponsor: European Space Agency 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. Image: ESA © 2007 MPS/IPF-DLR/IDA

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Current Research

NEWS

European mission reports from Venus

Eric Hand

NatureNews 28 November 2007 doi :10.1038/news.2007.297

NEWS FEATURE

The girl next door

Eric Hand

Nature 450, 606–608 (29 November 2007) doi :10.1038/450606a

NEWS AND VIEW

Venus: Express dispatches

Andrew P. Ingersoll.

Nature 450, 617–618 (29 November 2007) doi :10.1038/450617a

PROGRESS

Venus as a more Earth-like planet

Håkan Svedhem, Dmitry V. Titov, Fredric W. Taylor & Olivier Witasse

Nature 450, 629–632 (29 November 2007) doi :10.1038/nature06432

LETTER

Morphology and dynamics of the upper cloud layer of Venus

W. J. Markiewicz et al.

Nature 450, 633–636 (29 November 2007) doi :10.1038/nature06320

LETTER

South-polar features on Venus similar to those near the north pole

G. Piccioni et al.

Nature 450, 637–640 (29 November 2007) doi :10.1038/nature06209

LETTER

A dynamic upper atmosphere of Venus as revealed by VIRTIS on Venus Express

P. Drossart et al.

Nature 450, 641–645 (29 November 2007) doi :10.1038/nature06140

LETTER

A warm layer in Venus' cryosphere and high-altitude measurements of HF, HCl, H 2 O and HDO

Jean-Loup Bertaux et al.

Nature 450, 646–649 (29 November 2007) doi :10.1038/nature05974

LETTER

The loss of ions from Venus through the plasma wake

S. Barabash et al.

Nature 450, 650–653 (29 November 2007) doi :10.1038/nature06434

LETTER

Little or no solar wind enters Venus' atmosphere at solar minimum

T. L. Zhang et al.

Nature 450, 654–656 (29 November 2007) doi :10.1038/nature06026

LETTER

The structure of Venus' middle atmosphere and ionosphere

M. Pätzold et al.

Nature 450, 657–660 (29 November 2007) doi :10.1038/nature06239

LETTER

Lightning on Venus inferred from whistler-mode waves in the ionosphere

C. T. Russell et al.

Nature 450, 661–662 (29 November 2007) doi :10.1038/nature05930

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Listen to Håkan Svedhem's overview of the Venus mission on this week's Nature Podcast.





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