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Shades of Venus: our neighbor in the solar system holds a lantern on faraway planets "We are now on the eve of the second transit of a pair, after which there will be no other 'til the twenty-first century of our era has dawned upon the Earth, and the June flowers are blooming...(Continue Reading) Radar-mapper Magellan orbits Venus - spacecraft Radar-mapper Magellan orbits Venus The Magellan spacecraft climaxed its 15-month trip to Venus on Aug. 10 by entering a near-perfect orbit from which ......(Continue Reading)The planet parade: for millennia, planets were just mysterious, wandering points of light in the night sky. Now they are destinations In the study of the cosmos, it's hard to come up with a better tale than the centuries-long history of attempts to understand the planets-those sky wanderers that make their rounds against the back...(Continue Reading)
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