European space scientists with ESA are finishing work on a probe heading for Venus to help research global warming. <\/p>\n
Venus Express is scheduled to reach the planet next April after completing a 153-day journey from a Russian base in Kazakhstan. Venus is believed to have become a victim of a massive explosion in greenhouse gas emissions and could provide a useful blueprint for possible repercussions of pollution on Earth.<\/font><\/p>\n It is the third brightest object in the sky after the sun and moon and has clouds of suffocating gas driven by hurricane-force winds, as well as a surface pressure and temperature high enough to crush and melt steel. <\/font><\/p>\n Dmitry Titov, chief scientist with the European Space Agency\u2019s Venus project, said preparations on the probe\u2019s rocket were almost complete.<\/font><\/p>\n He said: \u201cThe launcher is being assembled right now and the final tests are being carried out.\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n A month-long window to launch the Soyuz Freget rocket has been arranged to start on October 26.<\/font><\/p>\n Venus Express will be equipped with seven instruments intended to map the planet\u2019s surface and weather system, looking at temperature variation, cloud formations, wind speeds and gas composition.<\/font> <\/p>\n Rocket launch schedules (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" European space scientists with ESA are finishing work on a probe heading for Venus to help research global warming. Venus Express is scheduled to reach the planet next April after completing a 153-day journey from a Russian base in Kazakhstan. The world is similar in size to Earth but, lying second from the sun, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe world is similar in size to Earth but, lying second from the sun, is vastly different. <\/font> <\/p>\n