as our closest planetary neighbor Venus
was formed at the same time in the same
part of the early solar system as the
Earth and Venus was made with the same
basic ingredients the same gases and the
same rocks
however now the two planets are
completely different on Venus days last
longer than years and the planet rotates
clockwise with the Sun rising in the
West and setting in the East and while
here on earth we benefit from an
atmosphere permitting life
venus is bone dry and cloaked in a thick
choking atmosphere of sulfuric acid and
co2 since 2005 pieces Venus Express has
been in orbit around Venus scanning its
atmosphere from above
now to take a better look Issa has sent
Venus Express coming into the top layer
of the atmosphere using a technique
known as aerobraking we went into the
atmosphere in this direction because
this face of the spacecraft which had
been attached to the rocket originally
when it was launched was most able to
take the forces and the temperatures we
also turned the solar panels to maximize
the amount of friction and to get the
most amount of break this maneuver
offered the first-ever close-up view of
Venus's upper atmosphere and it wasn't
what was expected what we saw that was a
little unusual is the variability in the
pressure as if there were waves within
the atmosphere and so that possible
wave-like structure was not expected and
we'll analyzing that data will keep
scientists busy for a little while yeah
thanks to Venus expresses data it's
thought that these wave-like
fluctuations could be related to the
speed of the winds that circulate around
Venus and these winds appear to be
getting faster when we arrive between as
eight years ago we detected wins at 300
km/h very fast but what has happened
during these years until now they have
actually increased when we now see winds
of 400 kilometers per hour and we can't
really explain what a way that has
happened
Venus Express has spent more than eight
is digging into the secrets of the
venusian atmosphere better understand
the complex dynamics between the
planet's atmosphere and interplanetary
solar winds and the atmosphere and the
surface while these recent findings pose
many new questions
it is possible that close to the answers
lie somewhere in the vast amounts of
data that have been gathered by the
spacecraft over the course of its
mission
I could do
the TV coverage of the frame and a man
they got the black up now you're gonna
be getting a TV picture now haven't
failed yet we are getting a TV picture
here within out
one ball and