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Could Venus be shifting gear?

10 February 2012 ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has discovered that our cloud-covered neighbour spins a little slower than previously measured. Peering through the dense atmosphere in the infrared, the orbiter found surface features were not quite where they should be.

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Saturn's Rings and Enceladus

8 February 2012 A crescent Enceladus appears with Saturn’s rings in this Cassini spacecraft view of the moon.

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ESA's Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean

6 February 2012 ESA's Mars Express has returned strong evidence for an ocean once covering part of Mars. Using radar, it has detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor within the boundaries of previously identified, ancient shorelines on Mars.

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