Venus probe launched successfully

Published: Nov 09, 2005
Source: news.bbc.co.uk



Europe's first space mission to Venus has begun its five-month voyage to our closest planetary neighbour.

Venus Express lifted off on a Russian rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0333 GMT on Wednesday.

The spacecraft will orbit Venus to study its atmosphere, which has experienced runaway greenhouse warming.

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