The EuroVenus project held today its final project meeting. Its funding from the European Commission ran from 1 Oct 2013 until 30 Sep 2016 - today's meeting, in Lisbon, was to close the activity, and to confirm that all promised o... Read More
From 2013 - 2016, the EuroVenus consortium united dozens of researchers from across Europe in research of the planet Venus, using observations from the Venus Express satellite, but also from a range of telescopes around the world.... Read More
DID YOU KNOW?
Uniquely among the planets, Venus spins in the opposite direction compared to its rotation around the sun. The most likely explanation is that Venus used to spin in the ‘right’ direction, but then suffered a massive impact.