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Venus Express spacecraft- Artwork

author: ESA/D.Ducros/Novapix

reference: e-son20-00014

Image Size 300 DPI: 29 * 22 cm

Artist view of ESA's Venus Express probe travelling from Earth to Venus; the two planets are not shown to scale. Venus Express is ESA's first mission to Earth's nearest planetary neighbour. The 1,270-kg spacecraft was launched from Baikonur atop a Soyuz-Fregat vehicle on November 9, 2005 and arrived around the planet on April 11 2006.

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2006 - ASTRONOMY - CLOUD - EARTH - EUROPE - ILLUSTRATION - LIMB - PLANET - SOLAR PANEL - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACEPROBE - VENUS - VENUS EXPRESS -