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Atmospheric Sciences
A false-color image of Venus’s atmosphere

Research Spotlight 17 January 2019

New Analysis Provides a Fresh View of the Atmosphere on Venus

Researchers apply a radio holographic method to standard Venusian atmospheric data, resulting in outputs with finer vertical resolution and revealing small-scale atmospheric structures.
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Planetary Sciences
Venus’s clouds as seen by Mariner 10 in 1974

News 7 November 2018

Could Life Be Floating in Venus’s Clouds?

If present, microbes could explain evolving patterns in the planet’s atmosphere when observed in ultraviolet light.
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Planetary Sciences

Editors' Highlights 17 May 2018

How Did Venus Get its Youthful Surface?

Catastrophic lithospheric recycling is unlikely to be the cause of Venus’s young surface from mantle convection models constrained by offset between the center of mass and center of shape of planet.
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Planetary Sciences

Editors' Highlights 26 February 2018

Elevated Heat Flow at Coronae on Venus

Enigmatic surface features on Venus called coronae are important for how Venus loses heat, and measurement of surface flexing around these features indicates higher heat flows than on Earth.
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Atmospheric Sciences
The lower stratosphere, an ideal region for detecting long-range geoacoustic signals, viewed from a hot air balloon.

Meeting Report 3 May 2017

Geoacoustics Takes to the Sky

Airborne Geoacoustics Workshop; Albuquerque, New Mexico, 3 January 2017
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Planetary Sciences

Editors' Vox 12 April 2017

Why It’s Time for a New Mission to Venus

A packed session entitled "Unveiling Venus" at the recent Lunar and Planetary Science Conference shows renewed interest in our sister planet.
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Atmospheric Sciences
A new model helps point the way towards determining whether there is lightning on Venus.

Research Spotlight 10 August 2016

Searching for Lightning's Signature on Venus

How energetic would lightning on Venus have to be to be detected by sensors? A new model sheds light.
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Space Science & Space Physics
Electric winds remove the components of water from Venus's upper atmosphere.

Research Spotlight 20 July 2016

Venus's Unexpected, Electrifying Water Loss

New research shows that an electric field surrounding Venus is stripping its atmosphere of water—and the same phenomenon may plague exoplanets scientists hope might be habitable.
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Planetary Sciences
Solar wind interacts with Venus's ionosphere to produce magnetotail.

Research Spotlight 27 June 2016

Solar Wind Disconnects Venus’s Magnetotail

Polarity reversals in the solar wind magnetic field disconnect the magnetic field trailing behind Venus, allowing ions from the atmosphere to escape.
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Planetary Sciences

Research Spotlight 16 October 2015

Evidence for Volcanoes on Venus

Infrared light from the planet's surface shows hot spots that might be caused by lava.
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