Last encounters with the planet Venus
Last encounters with the planet Venus
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Venus has been very busy this month, the solar orbiter probe that is a partnership between the European space agency and NASA, passed near Venus on Monday, August 9, at its closest point it was 7995 kilometers from the surface of the planet and on Tuesday August 10, the BepiColombo spacecraft, a partnership between the European space agency and the Japanese space agency, passed only 550 kilometers from the Venusian surface.
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The flybys have served to collect data and images of the planet although neither of the two spacecraft has Venus as its objective, the solar orbiter is destined to study the sun and obtain for the first time in history images of the poles of our star and the BepiColombo has as a mercury mission, both ships have used the gravity of venus to be able to go to their destinations.
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Huh. You really do learn something new every day.
Apparently, we have only 4 surface photos of Venus. Most images are of the thick, corrosive clouds that cover the planet.
In 1975 and 1982, 4 Soviet Union probes captured panoramic images of the surface of Venus.
Cool!
Looks like the BepiColombo spacecraft will get us more cloud images on its way past.
Good pics.
The missions are like that, it is a combination of planning and adaptation, if you have an objective why not make sub-objectives ... greetings.
Yes, even though the primary camera on BepiColombo can't get pics, well get some from its other cameras. Good thing the engineers think ahead.