Sentences with phrase «venusian year»

It takes Venus 117 Earth days to rotate once, and 224.7 Earth days to complete an orbit around the sun, meaning there are less than two full days in a single Venusian year.

Not that it happens often: a day there lasts a little more than 243 Earth - days, actually making it longer than a Venusian year, which is only about 224 Earth - days long.

Its mission is intended to last a nominal five hundred Earth days, or around two Venusian years.

Not exact matches

However, a new study of the atmosphere suggests that clouds may have kept the planet cool enough to preserve the Venusian sea for billions of years — far longer than previously thought.

Suzanne Smrekar of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and her colleagues deduced that lava flows on the flanks of several Venusian volcanoes appear unweathered, meaning that the flows must be no more than 2.5 million years old.

The team first simulated how the Venusian climate might have looked 2.9 billion years ago.

If you miss this event, there is a consolation prize: Because Venus circles the sun 13 times for every 8 times Earth does, Venusian transits come in pairs that occur eight years apart.

Toward the end of that year, though, the Pioneer Venus probe entered Venusian orbit — and immediately recorded suspiciously high levels of sulfur dioxide above the clouds.

Dubbed the first planetary meteorological satellite by mission scientists, Akatsuki was supposed to orbit Venus for 2 years, using its five cameras operating at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths to track clouds at different altitudes and watch for venusian lightning.

The hope is that this year's Venusian transit will provide a benchmark for further efforts to uncover the properties of these distant worlds (see «Transit of a lifetime: Why all eyes are on Venus now «-RRB-.

Detection of tremolite, a mineral created in the presence of water, could be used to ascertain how long any Venusian oceans lasted as a habitat for Earth - type life over the past 4.6 billion years of planetary history (more).

Instead, the developers behind Incredipede and Pineapple Smash Crew have collaborated on one of the most bizarre and intriguing game concepts you'll see this year: an alien jellyfish procreation simulator set beneath the thick Venusian clouds, which challenges us to help an intrepid Cnidarian spread its seed and fertilise a variety of extraterrestrial flora.

Re # 7, while permanent venusian - style runaway warming is not possible now (until the sun becomes a lot hotter in billions of years), we could go into (what scientists have told me) is hysteresis, a really great warming for even up to 100,000 or 200,000 years, in which a lot of life dies out, before the world cools back down again.

SummaryFor two years beginning in 2013, a large team led by Sanjay Limaye set out to combine and compare the following: Venusian atmospheric data collected by probes in the 1970s and 1980s (used to create the Venus International Reference Atmosphere, or VIRA) Venus Express data on the vertical and horizontal structure of the atmosphereEarth - based observations of the upper atmosphere temperature structure of Venus made since VIRAFigure 1a: Vertical coverage of post-VIRA atmospheric structure experi....