A new study reveals fresh signs of geological activity on Venus — clues that the planet's mysterious surface is still ...

Thanks to ESA's Venus Express data, scientists obtained the first large-area temperature maps of the southern hemisphere of the inhospitable, lead-melting surface of Venus.

Instruments aboard the Venus Express spacecraft have obtained the first large-area temperature map of the southern hemisphere of Venus’ searing surface.

When NASA aimed it at Venus, they thought the camera might be able to measure the speeds of Venusian clouds. Instead, they were able to map the nightside surface of the planet. Smoldering Surface ...

The first spacecraft to map the entire surface of Venus, Magellan used a synthetic aperture radar to capture detail down to a resolution of 390 feet.

Venus is famously hot, due to an extreme greenhouse effect which heats its surface to temperatures as high as 450 degrees Celsius. The climate at the surface is oppressive; as […] ...

This means that if those missions get selected, we will be able to make a geologic map of the Venus surface from orbit using the FeO contents of the rocks,” Dyar said.

Venus is the target of several upcoming missions later this decade like VERITAS and DAVINCI that will image and sample the Venusian atmosphere and create a new higher-resolution map of the surface ...

NASA's last mission dedicated to exploring Venus was a spacecraft called Magellan, which arrived on the planet in 1990 and spent four years mapping the planet's surface with a sophisticated radar ...

NASA's Magellan mission created the first maps of the surface in the 1990s using radar and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Akatsuki spacecraft gathered infrared images in 2016.

Venus' Surface Revealed Through Its CloudsVenus is famously hot, due to an extreme greenhouse effect which heats its surface to temperatures as high as 450 degrees Celsius. The climate at the ...