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Europe Goes To Venus; Mars Comes to Us

Posted by michael on from the frequent-flyer-miles dept.

JamesO writes "The BBC says that the ESA is going to Venus, reusing the Mars Express design. Also here. Launch seems to be expected in 2005." And knownsense writes "Space.com is reporting that Mars is coming to closer to Earth. It will be closer by around 191 million miles and will end up 85 times brighter about August next year. This apparently is the first time it's been this close since the Neanderthals."

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  1. Europe - The Final Countdown by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: -1, Redundant

    At least Europe won't have any dimensional analysis problems with not converting English measurements to metric, like NASA did with their Mars Climate Orbiter a few years ago!

  2. Re:Not much point right now... by Tiro · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You wouldn't call it a "satellite" if your sending it out of our orbit...