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ESA Venus Mission Delayed

Posted by Zonk on from the use-spacely-sprokets dept.

MrShaggy writes "The BBC is reporting that the ESA has announced that they have to hold the Venus Mission. According to the article, contamination is being blamed. From the article: 'Esa said the delay had been prompted by the discovery that insulation from the rocket launcher had contaminated the Venus Express spacecraft. "The satellite is contaminated, so they will have to dismantle and re-mount it again," a spokesperson for the space agency told the BBC News website.'"

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  1. More info at the wikipedia by Saiyine · · Score: 5, Informative


    Interestingly enough, the mission has a pretty complete wikipedia article.

    But even better are these pictures of the surface of Venus from the old Venera missions.

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  2. Re:It'll tell us something about greenhouse gases by biryokumaru · · Score: 3, Informative

    You might be interested in a process known as "Global Dimming," which some claim as the cause of the equitorial African droughts for the past twenty years. I believe the Indian government funded a few projects concerning this effect.

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  3. Re:It's not just the CO2 by Vilim · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, it actually is because of CO2, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus#Atmosphere.

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