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¿Qué ha convertido a Venus en un infierno?

11 octubre 2005

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Artist's impression of the Venus Express spacecraft being launched by its Soyuz-Fregat rocket.

Credits: ESA / AOES Medialab

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Artist's impression of the Venus Express orbit insertion

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Artist's impression of the Venus Express orbit insertion on 11 April 2006. In this phase of the mission, the most challenging since launch, the spacecraft's main engine burns for about 50 minutes, to reduce its speed with respect to Venus to allow the the spacecraft to be captured by the planet's gravitation.

Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab

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The ‘eyes’ of Venus Express are extremely sensitive to a wide range of electromagnetic wavelengths, from ultraviolet to infrared. They will be able to dig down through the atmosphere by exploiting for the first time the so-called ‘spectroscopic windows’, discovered in the late 1980s thanks to ground observations.

Credits: ESA

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Previous missions have suggested that Venus different from the Earth, having a basaltic crust extracted from the mantle and that it has a single tectonic plate.

Credits: Calvin J.Hamilton