Venus
by Nasa
Title
Venus
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Nasa
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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This colorized picture of Venus was taken on Feb. 14, 1990, from a distance of almost 1.7 million miles, about 6 days after Galileo's closest approach to the planet. This image shows the east-to-west-trending cloud banding and the brighter polar hoods familiar from past studies of Venus. The features are embedded in winds that flow from east to west at about 230 mph. The Galileo mission studied Jupiter, its satellites, and magnetosphere after multiple gravity-assist flybys at Venus and Earth.
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February 20th, 2013
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