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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. ohh yeahh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    i'm going to venus!

  2. And the RIAA goes to Uranus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    They sure like probing, don't they.

  3. yea but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    when will we go to uranus??

  4. *sigh* How easily you all buy into their lies. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This, of course, is just yet another attempt by the powers that be to perpetuate their lies of the solar system and universe.

    All space travel, of course, is impossible under currently perpetuated misconceptions of a 'solar system' that revolves around the sun. A man-made sattelite will never be able to leave earth's most immediate orbit until "scientists" finally recognize that everything in the universe revoles around the earth Thank you, and God Bless.

  5. Max is going to Mars, by WetCat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Valera - to Venera...

  6. yeah send the neanderthals back by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    to mars where they came from last time oit was too close. (europens =neandetrhals)