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Poor Venus. So often ignored in favor of our other, redder neighbor, Venus has company for the first time in a decade, courtesy of the European Space Agency. Since its arrival in April, Venus Express—built in record time by using the same basic design from its predecessor, Mars Express—has been studying Venus’s mysterious atmosphere closer than ever before. Early results from its cloud-piercing cameras show that the giant double vortex over the south pole [illustration, left] radically changes shape with elevation. Next question: Why? venus.esa.int
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