The Venus Express Completes Its Space Adventure, Readies for Death-Dive
 

The Venus Express Completes Its Space Adventure, Readies for Death-Dive
http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/...Death-Dive.jpgScientists with the European Space Agency are ready to bid the Venus Express probe its eternal farewell. Thus, it appears that, having completed its epic space adventure, the Venus Express is **w getting ready for its death-dive.

The spacecraft, images of which are available below, left Earth in **vember 2005, and reached Venus less than one year later, in April 2006. The probe placed itself in the planet's orbit and spent about 8 and a half years circling it.

During this time, the spacecraf... (read more)