வெள்ளி (கோள்)

வெள்ளி (Venus) சூரியக்குடும்பத்தில் சூரியனிலிருந்து இரண்டாவதாக அமைந்துள்ள ஒரு கோளாகும். நம் இரவு வானத்தில்  நிலவுக்கு அடுத்து வெள்ளியே ஒளி மிகுந்ததாகும்.. சூரியனின் உதயத்துக்கு முன்னும், மறைவிற்குப் பின்னும் வெள்ளி தன் உச்ச ஒளிநிலையை அடைகிறது. எனவே இது காலை நட்சத்திரம் , விடிவெள்ளி மற்றும் மாலை நட்சத்திரம் என்றெல்லாம் அழைக்கப்படுகின்றது. சூரியக் குடும்பத்திலே மிகவும் வெப்பமான வளிமண்டலத்தைக் கொண்ட கோள் வெள்ளியாகும். இது கூடுதலான பைங்குடில் விளைவால் ஏற்பட்டதாகும். இதன் சூழல் உயிரினங்கள் வாழ முடியாத நிலையைக் கொண்டுள்ளது. வெள்ளி பூமிக்கு மிக அருகில் உள்ள கோள் ஆகும்.

வெள்ளி  ஞாயிறை ஒவ்வொரு 224.7 புவி நாட்களில் சுற்றி வருகின்றது. இக்கோளிற்கு இயற்கைத் துணைக்கோள் ஏதுமில்லை.  ஐரோப்பிய வழக்குகளில் இதற்கு உரோமைத் தொன்மவியலில் அழகிற்கும் காதலுக்குமான பெண்கடவுள்  வீனசின்  பெயர் சூட்டப்பட்டுள்ளது.  இந்திய மொழிகளில் இந்தியத் தொன்மவியலில் அசுரர்களின் குருவான  சுக்கிரனின்  பெயர் சூட்டப்பட்டுள்ளது. புவியில் இக்கோளின் தோற்ற ஒளிப்பொலிவெண்  −4.6 ஆக உள்ளதால் இதன் ஒளியினால் நிழல்கள் உருவாகும். வெள்ளிக்கோள் புவியிலிருந்து சூரியனை நோக்கிய உட்புறக் கோளாக இருப்பதால் எப்போதுமே சூரியனுக்கு அருகாமையில் இருப்பதாகத் தோன்றுகின்றது.

வெள்ளிக்கோள் ஒரு புவியொத்த கோள் ஆகும். இது புவியை ஒத்த அளவு, ஈர்ப்புவிசை, உள்ளடக்கம் கொண்டிருப்பதால் சிலநேரங்களில் வெள்ளி புவியின் "சகோதரிக் கோள்" எனப்படுகின்றது. இக்கோள் புவிக்கு மிக அருகிலுள்ள  கோளும் ஒத்த அளவை உடைய கோளும் ஆகும்.  அதேநேரத்தில் இது பலவகைகளில் புவியிலிருந்து வேறுபட்டுள்ளதும் சுட்டப்படுகின்றது. தரைப்பரப்புள்ள நான்கு கோள்களில் மிக அடர்த்தியான வளிமண்டலம் உள்ள கோள் வெள்ளியாகும்.  இந்த வளிமண்டலம்  96%க்கும் கூடிய காபனீரொக்சைட்டு அடங்கியது. கோளின் தரைப்பரப்பில் வளிமண்டல அழுத்தம்  புவியை விட 92 மடங்காக உள்ளது. சூரியக் குடும்பத்தின் மிகவும் வெபமிகுந்த கோளாக விளங்கும் வெள்ளியின் தரைமட்ட வெப்பநிலை ஆக உள்ளது. இங்கு கார்பன் சுழற்சி நடைபெறாமையால் பாறைகளோ தரைப்பரப்பு  மேடுபள்ளங்களோ உருவாகவில்லை; தவிரவும் உயிர்த்திரளில் கரிமத்தை உள்வாங்கிட எவ்வித கரிம உயிரினமும் இல்லை. வெள்ளியின் வளிமண்டலத்தில் சல்பூரிக் அமில மேகங்களின் எதிரொளிப்பால் கீழுள்ள தரைப்பரப்பை ஒளி மூலம் காணவியலாது உள்ளது. முன்னொரு காலத்தில் வெள்ளியில் பெருங்கடல்கள் இருந்திருக்கலாம்;David Shiga Did Venus's ancient oceans incubate life?, New Scientist, 10 ஒக்டோபர் 2007 ஆனால் இவை  பைங்குடில் விளைவின் வெப்பநிலைகளால் ஆவியாகியிருக்கலாம்.B.M. Jakosky, "Atmospheres of the Terrestrial Planets", in Beatty, Petersen and Chaikin (eds,), The New Solar System, 4th edition 1999, Sky Publishing Company (Boston) and Cambridge University Press (Cambridge), pp. 175–200 ஆவியான நீர் ஒளிமின்பிரிகையால் பிரிக்கப்பட்டிருக்கலாம்; கோளில் காந்தப்புலங்கள் இல்லாமையால் கட்டற்ற ஐதரசன் சூரியக் காற்றால் கோள்களிடையேயான விண்வெளிக்கு அடித்துச் செல்லப்பட்டிருக்கலாம். வெள்ளியின் தரைப்பகுதி வறண்ட பாலைவனமாக, அவ்வப்போதைய எரிமலை வெடிப்புகளால் புதிப்பிக்கப்பட்ட வண்ணம், உள்ளது.

2020 செப்டம்பரில் பாஸ்பீன் வளிமம் வெள்ளிக் கோளின் வளிமண்டலத்தில் கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதுவரை அறியப்பட்ட இயற்கை மூலங்கள் உற்பத்தி செய்யும் திறன் கொண்டவை என்று நம்பப்படுவதை விட சுமார் பத்தாயிரம் மடங்கு அதிகமான செறிவுகளில் கோளின் வளிமண்டலத்தில் இவ்வாயு உள்ளது. வெள்ளியின் வளிமண்டலத்தில் பாஸ்பீன் கண்டறியப்பட்டமை, அக்கோளின் வளிமண்டலத்தில் கரிம வாழ்வின் சாத்தியக்கூறுகள் இருப்பதற்கான ஊகத்திற்கு வழிவகுத்துள்ளது.

 பௌதிகப் பண்புகள்
இது புவியைப் போல கற்கோளத்தைக் கொண்ட கோளாகும். இதன் திணிவும் ஆரை நீளமும் கிட்டத்தட்ட புவியினுடையதை ஒத்துப் போவதால் இக்கோளானது புவியின் தங்கை எனவும் அழைக்கப்படுகின்றது. இதன் ஆரை 12092 கிலோமீற்றர் நீளத்தைக் கொண்டது.

 புவியியல்
வெள்ளியின் மேற்பரப்பில் 80 சதவீதம் சமவெளியாய் உள்ளது. அதில் 10 சதவீதம் மென்மையான லோபடே சமவெளியும் 70 சதவீதம் மென்மையான, எரிமலை சமவெளியும் அடக்கம். இதில் வடதுருவத்தில் ஒரு கண்டமும் வெள்ளியின் நிலநடுக்கோட்டிற்கு சற்று தெற்கில் ஒரு கண்டமும் அமையப் பெற்றுள்ளது. ஆஸ்திரேலியா கண்டத்திற்கு இணையான பரப்பளவு கொண்ட வடக்கு கண்டம் பாபிலோனியக் காதல் தெய்வமான இசுதாரின் பெயரில் அழைக்கப்படுகிறது. மேக்ஸ்வெல் மோன்டசு, வெள்ளியின் மிக உயர்ந்த மலையாகும். அதன் சிகரம் சராசரி மேற்பரப்பு உயரமான 11 கி.மீ. தொலைவில் உள்ளது. பரப்பளவில் இரண்டு தென் அமெரிக்கா கண்டங்களுக்கு இணையான தெற்குக் கண்டம் அப்ரோடிட் டெர்ரா கிரேக்க காதல் தெய்வத்தின் பெயரால் அழைக்கப்படுகிறது.

 காந்தப் புலமும் மையக்கருவும்
1967இல் செலுத்தப்பட்ட வெனரா 4 என்ற விண்கலம் வெள்ளியில் உள்ள காந்தப்புலம் புவியினுடையதை விட மிக வலிவற்றதாக இருப்பதைக் கண்டறிந்தது. இந்தக் காந்தப் புலமும்  அயனிமண்டலத்திற்கும்  சூரியக் காற்றுக்குமிடையேயான இடைவினையால் தூண்டப்பட்டதாகும்;Dolginov, Nature of the Magnetic Field in the Neighborhood of Venus, COsmic Research, 1969 பொதுவாக கோள்களின் கருவத்தில் காணப்படும் உள்ளக மின்னியற்றி போன்று வெள்ளியில் இல்லை. வெள்ளியின்  சிறிய தூண்டப்பட்ட காந்த மண்டலம்  அண்டக் கதிர்களிலிருந்து வளிமண்டலத்திற்கு எவ்வித பாதுகாப்பும் வழங்குவதில்லை. இந்தக் கதிர்களால் மேகங்களுக்கிடையே மின்னல்கள் ஏற்பட வாய்ப்புள்ளது.

புவியை ஒத்த அளவினதாக இருப்பினும் வெள்ளியில் காந்தப்புலம் இல்லாதிருப்பது வியப்பளிப்பதாக உள்ளது. உள்ளக மின்னியற்றி இயங்கிட மூன்று முன்தேவைகள் உள்ளன:  கடத்துகின்ற நீர்மம், தற்சுழற்சி, மற்றும் மேற்காவுகை. வெள்ளியின் கருவம் மின்கடத்தும் தன்மையதாக கருதப்படுகின்றது; வெள்ளியின் சுழற்சி மிக மெதுவாக இருப்பினும் ஆய்வகச் சோதனைகளில் இந்த விரைவு மின்னியக்கி உருவாகப் போதுமானதாக மதிப்பிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதனால் வெள்ளியில் மின்னியக்கி இல்லாதிருப்பதற்கு மேற்காவுகை  இல்லாதிருக்கலாம் என நம்பப்படுகின்றது. புவியில் மையக்கருவின் வெளிப்புற அடுக்குகளில் உள்ள நீர்மத்தின் வெப்பநிலையை விட  உட்புற அடுக்குகளில் மிகக் கூடுதலாக இருப்பதால்  மேற்காவுகை நிகழ்கின்றது.  வெள்ளியில் ஏதேனும் மேற்புற நிகழ்வினால் தட்டுநிலப் பொறைக் கட்டமைப்பை மூடி கருவத்தில் குறைந்த வெப்பச்சலனத்தை   உண்டாக்கி இருக்கலாம். இதனால்  மேலோட்டு வெப்பநிலை உயர்ந்து உள்ளிருந்து வெப்பப் பரவலை தடுத்திருக்கலாம். இக்காரணங்களால் புவிசார் மின்னியக்கி செயற்பாடு இல்லாதிருக்கலாம். மாற்றாக, கருவத்தின் வெப்பத்தால் மேலோடு  சூடுபடுத்தப்படலாம்.

மற்றொரு கருத்தாக, வெள்ளியில் திண்மநிலை உட்கருவம் இல்லாதிருக்கலாம் அல்லது அந்தக் கருவம் குளிரடையவில்லை என முன்வைக்கப்படுகின்றது. இதன் காரணமாக முழுமையான நீர்மப்பகுதி அனைத்துமே ஒரே வெப்பநிலையில் இருக்க வாய்ப்புள்ளது. வெள்ளியின் கருவம் முழுமையுமே திண்மமாக மாறிவிட்டது என்ற மாற்றுக் கருத்துக்கும் வாய்ப்புள்ளது. உட்கருவத்தில் உள்ள கந்தகத்தின் அடர்வைப் பொறுத்து கருவத்தின் நிலை இருக்கும்; ஆனால் கந்தக அடர்த்தி குறித்து இதுநாள் வரை அறியப்படவில்லை.
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வெள்ளியில் காந்தப்புலம் வலிவற்றதாக இருப்பதால்  அதன் வெளிப்புற வளிமண்டலத்துடன் சூரியக்காற்று நேரடியாகவே இடைவினையாற்றுகின்றது. இங்கு புற ஊதாக்கதிர்களால்  நடுநிலை மூலக்கூறுகள் பிரிக்கப்பட்டு   ஐதரசன், ஆக்சிசன் அயனிகள் உருவாகின்றன.  இந்த அயனிகளுக்கு வெள்ளியின் ஈர்ப்புப் புலத்திலிருந்து விடுபட சூரியகாற்று தேவையான ஆற்றலை வழங்குகின்றது. இந்த   அரித்தலால் குறைந்த நிறையிலுள்ள ஐதரசன், ஹீலியம், ஆக்சிசன் அயனிகள்  இழக்கப்படுகின்றன; உயர்நிறை உள்ள மூலக்கூறுகளான கார்பன் டைஆக்சைடு போன்றவை தக்க வைத்துக்கொள்ளப்படுகின்றன. இத்தகைய சூரியக்காற்றின் செய்கையால் வெள்ளியில் அது உருவானபோது இருந்திருக்கக்கூடிய நீர் முதல் பில்லியன் ஆண்டுகளில்  இழக்கப்பட்டிருக்கலாம். தவிரவும் இச்செய்கையால் உயர்ந்த வளிமண்டலத்தில் நிறை குறைந்த ஐதரசனுக்கும் நிறையான தியூட்டிரியத்திற்குமான விகிதம் உட்புற வளிமண்டலத்தில் நிலவும் விகிதத்தை விட 150 மடங்கு குறைந்துள்ளது.

 புறத் தோற்றம்
புவியில் இருந்து மானிடர் நோக்கும் போது வெள்ளிக் கோளே எந்த விண்மீனை (சூரியனைத் தவிர்த்து) விடவும் வெளிச்சமாக உள்ளது. வெள்ளி பூமியின் அருகில் இருக்கும் போது அதன் பிரகாசம் அதிகமாகவும், தோற்றப்பருமன் -4.9 ஆகவும், பிறை கட்டத்திலும் காணப்படுகிறது. சூரியன் பின்னோளி வீசும் போது இதன் பிரகாசம் -3 ஆக மங்குகிறது. இக்கோள் நடுப்பகலிலும் காணத்தக்க பிரகாசமாக இருப்பதுடன் சூரியும் கீழ் வானில் இருக்கும் போது எளிதில் காணக் கூடியதாகவும் இருக்கிறது. இதன் சுற்றுப்பாதை சூரியனுக்கும் புவியின் சுற்றுப்பாதைக்கும் நடுவில் இருப்பதால் புவியில் இருந்து பார்க்கும் போது சூரியனின் நிலநடுக்கோட்டில் இருந்து 47 டிகிரி சாய்வு வரை அதிகமாக செல்வது போல் தோற்றம் அளிக்கிறது.

 மானிடக் குடியேற்றத்தின் சாத்தியம்
thumb|360px|right|மானிடர் இதைப் போன்று பெரிய அளவில் மிதக்கும் நகரங்களை வெள்ளியின் விண்ணில் அமைக்க வாய்ப்புண்டு.

வெள்ளிக் கோள் பரப்பின் சூழல் தற்போது மானிடர் வாழும் சூழலை பெறவில்லை. ஆனால் வெள்ளிக் கோள் பரப்பில் இருந்து ஐம்பது கிலோமீட்டர்களுக்கு மேல் உள்ள வளி மண்டலம் மனிதர் வாழ்வதற்கு ஏற்ற அடிப்படை வாயுக்களான நைட்ரசனையும் ஆக்சிசனையும் பெற்றுள்ளது. அதனால் வெள்ளியின் வானில் மானிடர் மிதக்கும் நகரங்களை உருவாக்க வாய்புள்ளது. காற்றினும் எடை குறைந்த மிதக்கும் நகரங்களை (வலது பக்கத்தில் உள்ள மிதக்கும் விண்கலன் போல்) உருவாக்கி அதில் நிரந்தரக் குடியேற்றங்களை அமைக்க முடியும். ஆனால் இதில் மிகப்பெரிய அளவுக்கு பொறியியல் தொழில்நுட்பச் சவால்களும், இந்த உயரத்தில் உள்ள கந்தக அமிலத்தின் அடர்த்தியும் இதற்கு தடைகள் ஆகும்.

 சூரியனைக் கடக்கும் போது
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முதன்மைக் கட்டுரை - வெள்ளிக் கோளின் சூரியக்கடப்பு
வெள்ளிக் கோளின் சூரியக்கடப்பு அல்லது  வெள்ளியின் இடைநகர்வு என்பது சூரியக் குடும்பத்தில் உள்ள வெள்ளி கோளானது சுற்றுப்பாதையில் வரும்போது சூரிய வட்டத்தைக் கடப்பதைக் குறிப்பதாகும். அதாவது, வெள்ளிக்கோள் சூரியனுக்கும், பூமிக்கும் இடையில் செல்வதைக் இது குறிக்கும். இந்த இடைநகர்வின் போது வெள்ளி சூரிய வட்டத்தில் ஒரு சிறு கரும் புள்ளியாகக் கண்ணுக்குத் தெரியும். இந்த இடைநகர்வு இடம்பெறும் காலம் பொதுவாக மணித்தியாலங்களில் கூறப்படுகிறது. இந்த இடைநகர்வு நிலவினால் ஏற்படும் சூரிய கிரகணத்தை ஒத்தது. வெள்ளி பூமியில் இருந்து அதிக தூரத்தில் இருப்பதனால் (நிலவுக்கும் பூமிக்கும் இடையிலுள்ள தூரத்தை விடவும், வெள்ளிக்கும் பூமிக்குமிடையிலுள்ள தூரம் கிட்டத்தட்ட 100 மடங்கு அதிகம்), வெள்ளியின் விட்டம் நிலவை விட 3 மடங்கு அதிகமானதாக இருந்தாலும்கூட, வெள்ளி இடைநகர்வின்போது, வெள்ளி மிகச் சிறியதாகத் தெரிவதுடன், மிக மெதுவாக நகர்வதையும் காணலாம்.

 அவதானிப்பு
thumb|alt=A photograph of the night sky taken from the seashore. A glimmer of sunlight is on the horizon. There are many stars visible. Venus is at the center, much brighter than any of the stars, and its light can be seen reflected in the ocean.|வெள்ளிக் கிரகமானது அனைத்து விண்மீன்களிலும் பிரகாசம் கூடியது

 வெள்ளிக் கோள் / சுக்கிரன் வெள்ளிக் கோள் / சுக்கிரன் வெள்ளிக் கோள் / சுக்கிரன் thumb|right|200px|பூமியிலிருந்து சுக்கிரனின் சுற்றுப்பாதையைப் பார்த்தால், அது ஒரு ஐங்கோண வடிவமாக அமையும். thumb|right|200px|மாலை வேளையில் சந்திரனும் சுக்கிரனும். thumb|right|200px|சுக்கிரனின் சுற்றுப்பாதை ( சுக்கிரன், சூரியனுக்கும் பூமிக்கும் இடையில் சூரியனைச் சுற்றிவருகிறது ) thumb|right|200px|சுக்கிரனின் அடையாளச்சின்னம். thumb|right|200px|ஒப்பீட்டுக்காக சுக்கிரனும் பூமியும் thumb|right|200px|வானக்கோளான சுக்கிரன் கதிரவனைக்கடந்து செல்கிறது.

 மேற்கோள்கள்

 வெளி இணைப்புகள்

 Venus profile at NASA's Solar System Exploration site
 Missions to Venus and Image catalog at the National Space Science Data Center
 Soviet Exploration of Venus and Image catalog at Mentallandscape.com
 Image catalog from the Venera missions
 Venus page at The Nine Planets
 Transits of Venus at NASA.gov
 Geody Venus, a search engine for surface features
Interactive 3D gravity simulation of the pentagram that the orbit of Venus traces when Earth is held fixed at the centre of the coordinate system
 Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature: Venus by the International Astronomical Union
 Venus crater database by the Lunar and Planetary Institute
 Map of Venus by Eötvös Loránd University
 Google Venus 3D, interactive map of the planet

பகுப்பு:புவியொத்த கோள்கள்
பகுப்பு:சூரியக் குடும்பம்

The sun is the sun, the sun is the sun, the sun is the sun, the sun is the sun, the sun is the sun, the sun is the sun, the sun is the sun.

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When I was a young boy, I recall reading a book written by Patrick Moore in which he
mentioned the fact that three normal (excluding bright fireballs
and perhaps artificial satellites) bodies in the night sky were capable of casting a shadow on Earth*. The Sun and Moon are pretty obvious but it
was the third that fascinated me - Venus. Last year (2004), Venus captured everyone's
imagination with a spectacular transit across the Sun's surface. Technically, during
such an event, we, on planet Earth, are looking at the shadow of Venus as the
planet blocks a tiny portion of the light from the Sun.
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* Apparently it's also possible to see a shadow cast by the light of Jupiter and Mars.
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However, this was not the shadow I was interested in. In extremely dark locations
when the air is clear, Venus is close to maximum brightness and reasonably high
in the sky, it is possible to see a shadow projected onto the ground caused
by the light from the planet itself. This itself has been noted several times in the
past.
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Quite by chance a couple of months ago I found myself in Patrick's home talking to him about an imaging project I was intending to undertake next year. The conversation turned to things that had rarely ever been photographed and he told me that as far as he was aware there were few decent photographs of a shadow caused by the light from Venus**. So the challenge was set...
** Since posting this page, a couple of photographs have come to light including two by Brian Manning (BAA Journal June '03 p.177). However, to date, I'm still unaware of any that show the shadow of a human being cast by Venus.
The first problem for me to overcome was ambient light. I'm lucky enough to live on a peninsular with beaches to the east, south and west of me. This provided a perfect venue to make my attempt. On Friday November 18th 2005, after many of failed attempts, I stuck a sheet of white A4 paper against a concrete sea wall sheltered from any stray light and took the photograph shown below.
Ok - it doesn't look that impressive and to be honest, when I reviewed the night's catch, I nearly placed it in the failed pile. However, closer scrutiny revealed something odd about the photo. If you look at the paper behind the tripod, there's a distinct sharp edged shadow visible. It's faint but it is there!
Apart from a couple of boats on the distant horizon (which were much fainter than Venus at the time), the only light source that could have cast the shadow was Venus itself.
The photograph below shows a comparison of the scene illuminated by Venus and with me standing in the way of the planet's light.
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To be a bit more scientific about the process, I designed a piece of equipment
that would prove, once and for all that I had managed to capture this faint shadow.
Basically, what I needed to do was to remove all possible sources of extraneous
light, capture the shadow and prove that it was indeed a shadow cast by Venus itself.
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My equipment consisted of a long cardboard tube mounted on a tripod (so that it could be pointed easily). An obstruction was created and pasted inside the tube. For effect, I decided to make the obstruction in the shape of the astronomical symbol for Venus as shown below.
The tube would be pointed at Venus, the light from which would pass down the tube and out the other end except where it was blocked by the shadow obstruction. A thin sheet of tissue was placed over the bottom end of the tube and a camera set up to capture whatever was shown on it.
On this night, I was assisted by my children Richard and Douglas who, as well as carrying my equipment down to the beach, were also able to verify my technique.
With everything set up, the only light that could cause an image of the obstruction to appear on the tissue screen would be that from Venus and/or from the background sky. In order to rule out the background sky, I took two control images - one with the tube pointed at the area adjacent to Venus but making sure that the brilliant planet's light did not enter the tube. The other (a shot I nearly forgot to take!) would show the shadow cast on the screen making sure that the orientation of the camera and tube was such that the open end of the tube was not behind the tube.
The photograph below shows the screen photographed once with Venus visible down the tube and once making sure just the adjacent sky was visible. Rather embarrassingly, the orientation of the tube was such that the symbol was upside down and was consequently imaged looking more more like the symbol used to represent a church on an Ordnance Survey map than that used to denote Venus! To regain some degree of authenticity, the image presented below has been rotated by 180 degrees!
|The image below shows the setup in-situ. The course semi-circular area
has been taken from the same photograph and digitally stretched to reveal the
faint shadow. Although the sky looks relatively bright in the image, it should
be noted that the exposure was ~ 1 minute with the camera set at it's most
sensitive configuration. The brilliant light visible just above the tube is a
rather over-exposed Venus.
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|The final image shown below was nearly forgotten. As a consequence, it was
taken late on towards the end of the session when Venus was starting to move
into the murk lurking on the south-western horizon. Visually, the planet's light
was no longer brilliant white but had taken on a distinctly yellowish hue.
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As a consequence, the image has had to be pushed hard to reveal the shadow. Selsey doesn't really have yellow sea and shingle - that's caused by the light from a sodium (hence the yellow-orange) street lamp positioned some distance away at the end of the road we used to access the beach. We had carefully positioned ourselves so that we were hidden from the light itself but the camera recorded it's illuminating effects out to sea. It should be noted that this lamp could not influence the experiment as there was no possibility that it's light could enter the open end of the tube.
What is being shown here is a faint (due to Venus moving into a thicker part of the Earth's atmosphere and the Venusian light dimming) shadow seen on the tissue screen at the end of the tube. The camera has been deliberately placed so that a line drawn from it directly through the screen could not 'see' the open end of the tube. The shadow as recorded could only have come from the one light source entering the tube - Venus.
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On the night of November 20th 2005, the sky was particularly clear after sunset.
With the shadow tube results already captured, my children and I decided to
have one last attempt and see whether we could capture their own shadows.
As it happened this turned out to be much harder than expected as it's
difficult for a cold human being to stand still long enough for the amount
of time needed to catch the faint Venusian shadow.
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The photo below shows the scene that greeted us when we arrived at the beach.
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The only human shadows that we could capture on this night were those of my children's
hands. Even then, the slightest movement destroyed the distinct sharpness of the
Venusian shadow (the hand on the right in the top photograph below had moved slightly
during the exposure and its shadow is almost lost as a consequence).
The hand shadows are just about visible in the images below...
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The problems we were having recording this faint shadow were evidently being
aggravated by the fact that as the planet's altitude drops quite quickly, it
enters a region of thicker, more murky atmosphere which attenuates some of its
light. The photograph below was taken earlier in the session and by virtue of the
fact that Venus was higher in the sky and that tripods can stay still for long
periods of time, the shadow is much easier to see.
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Finally, we called it an evening and packed up for home. It was extremely cold
and Venus was fading rapidly as it moved towards the horizon. A final shot was taken
to close the session (including uninvited aircraft!) which is shown below.
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In conclusion I'd like to thank Sir Patrick Moore for reminding me to take the
photograph his original text had inspired me to follow all of those years ago.
As far as I can tell the human shadows are a world first but I'm sure someone will inform me if they aren't!
I'd also like to thank my children - Richard (14) and Douglas (12) - for their
patience and assistance on a cold, damp November evening on a Selsey beach. Thanks guys.
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(c) Pete Lawrence, 2005 (DigitalSky website)

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In the same way, it is made different from the scenes of the scenes.

And I will be in the midst of the midst of the midst of the midst of the midst of the midst.

Caught in the wind from the Sun
Venus Express has exposed the true extent to which the Sun strips away the atmosphere of Venus. This process could be an important contribution to the way the planet has evolved to become so different from the Earth.
The Sun has probably been stripping away the Venus’ atmosphere throughout the planet’s four-thousand million-year history. Unlike Earth, Venus does not possess an intrinsic magnetic field to protect its atmosphere from the solar wind, a constant stream of electrically charged particles emitted by the Sun. Instead, the solar wind interacts directly with the upper atmosphere of Venus.
“The solar wind interaction is important because it defines the conditions at the boundary of the atmosphere with space and it is a very active boundary,” says Stanislav Barabash at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden.
In particular, the interaction causes Venus’s atmosphere to lose its gases in the form of ionized particles. The Analyzer of Space Plasmas and Energetic Atoms (ASPERA) on Venus Express has been studying this interaction and has revealed, for the first time, the composition of the escaping particles. They are predominantly hydrogen, oxygen and helium ions.
The first two components of the escaping ions are highly important because they are the chemical constituents of water. Water molecules are thought to be the principal contributors of hydrogen in the upper atmosphere of Venus. The solar ultraviolet radiation breaks water into electrically charged ‘atoms’, turning it into what scientists call a plasma, and this plasma is then accelerated into space. Thus, two hydrogen atoms should be escaping for every one of oxygen.
The highly elliptical polar orbit of Venus Express, with its closest approach to the planet of 250–350 km and its furthest reach of 66,000 km, is perfect for studying the escaping planetary ions. This is because it covers the region of the solar wind interaction near the planet and the region directly downstream of the planet, as well as for reference the unperturbed solar wind far away from the planet.
Prior to Venus Express, scientists knew that particles were probably escaping from Venus’s atmosphere but they could only guess the composition of those particles.
ASPERA finally established the composition of the escaping plasma and measured that the escape of hydrogen to oxygen is, indeed, in the same ratio as water: two hydrogens for every oxygen.
This may be the critical observation in understanding why Venus is so dry today. Perhaps the solar wind has gradually stripped the planet of water. The way to estimate this is to observe the process for as long as possible, watching for changes in the escape rate, brought about by different amounts of solar activity.
Solar activity controls almost every aspect of the Venus plasma environment. Although Venus has no intrinsic magnetic field, the interplanetary magnetic field carried by the solar wind piles up above the planet’s upper atmosphere, creating a weak magnetic envelop around Venus. This prevents the solar wind from entering the atmosphere.
The magnetometer instrument (MAG) on Venus Express has shown that this field is wrapped around the day-side of the planet and continues to hug the shape of the planet on the night-side. The configuration of the night-time magnetic field seems likely to promote the acceleration of plasma, resulting in further loss of the atmosphere.
“For the first time, we could perform the in-situ observations of the near-Venus plasma environment at solar minimum. We see a very different picture of solar wind interaction with Venus than the well-known observations at solar maximum.” says Tielong Zhang, Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.
Back to latest Venus Express results
Notes for editors:
The findings appear in the 29 November issue of the scientific journal Nature, in the papers: 'Venus loses its water through the plasma wake', by S.Barabash et al., and 'Little or no solar wind enters Venus' atmosphere at solar minimum', by T.Zang et al.
For more information:
Stanislav Barabash, ASPERA Principal Investigator, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden
Email: stas @ irf.se
Tielong Zhang, MAG Principal Investigator, Space Research Institute of Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Email: Tielong.Zhang @ oeaw.ac.at
Håkan Svedhem, ESA’s Venus Express Project Scientist
Email: Hakan.Svedhem @ esa.int

அதேநேரத்தில் இது பலவகைகளில் புவியிலிருந்து வேறுபட்டுள்ளதும் சுட்டப்படுகின்றது.

தரைப்பரப்புள்ள நான்கு கோள்களில் மிக அடர்த்தியான வளிமண்டலம் உள்ள கோள் வெள்ளியாகும்.

It has a colorful size, vibration, and content because it is sometimes called the "cocktail box" of the light box. The very close to the light box is the light size of the light box. In the same way, it is made different from the scenes of the scenes. And I will be in the midst of the midst of the midst of the midst of the midst of the midst.

In the same way, it is made different from the scenes of the scenes.

And I will be in the midst of the midst of the midst of the midst of the midst of the midst.

In September 2020, the baseball is found in the baseball of the baseball.

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வளிமண்டலத்தில்

கண்டுபிடிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது

நம்பப்படுவதை

வளிமண்டலத்தில்

வளிமண்டலத்தில்

கண்டறியப்பட்டமை

வளிமண்டலத்தில்

An international team of astronomers, led by Professor Jane Greaves of Cardiff University, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule – phosphine – in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially, or by microbes that thrive in oxygen-free environments.
Astronomers have speculated for decades that high clouds on Venus could offer a home for microbes – floating free of the scorching surface, but still needing to tolerate very high acidity. The detection of phosphine molecules, which consist of hydrogen and phosphorus, could point to this extra-terrestrial ‘aerial’ life. The new discovery is described in a paper in Nature Astronomy.
The team first used the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii to detect the phosphine, and were then awarded time to follow up their discovery with 45 telescopes of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. Both facilities observed Venus at a wavelength of about 1 millimetre, much longer than the human eye can see – only telescopes at high altitude can detect this wavelength effectively.
Professor Greaves says, “This was an experiment made out of pure curiosity, really – taking advantage of JCMT’s powerful technology, and thinking about future instruments. I thought we’d just be able to rule out extreme scenarios, like the clouds being stuffed full of organisms. When we got the first hints of phosphine in Venus’ spectrum, it was a shock!”
Naturally cautious about the initial findings, Greaves and her team were delighted to get three hours of time with the more sensitive ALMA observatory. Bad weather added a frustrating delay, but after six months of data processing, the discovery was confirmed.
Team member Dr Anita Richards, of the UK ALMA Regional Centre and the University of Manchester, adds: “To our great relief, the conditions were good at ALMA for follow-up observations while Venus was at a suitable angle to Earth. Processing the data was tricky, though, as ALMA isn’t usually looking for very subtle effects in very bright objects like Venus.”
Greaves adds: “In the end, we found that both observatories had seen the same thing – faint absorption at the right wavelength to be phosphine gas, where the molecules are backlit by the warmer clouds below.”
Professor Hideo Sagawa of Kyoto Sangyo University then used his models for the Venusian atmosphere to interpret the data, finding that phosphine is present but scarce – only about twenty molecules in every billion.
The astronomers then ran calculations to see if the phosphine could come from natural processes on Venus. They caution that some information is lacking – in fact, the only other study of phosphorus on Venus came from one lander experiment, carried by the Soviet Vega 2 mission in 1985.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist Dr William Bains led the work on assessing natural ways to make phosphine. Some ideas included sunlight, minerals blown upwards from the surface, volcanoes, or lightning, but none of these could make anywhere near enough of it. Natural sources were found to make at most one ten thousandth of the amount of phosphine that the telescopes saw.
To create the observed quantity of phosphine on Venus, terrestrial organisms would only need to work at about 10% of their maximum productivity, according to calculations by Dr Paul Rimmer of Cambridge University. Any microbes on Venus will likely be very different to their Earth cousins though, to survive in hyper-acidic conditions.
Earth bacteria can absorb phosphate minerals, add hydrogen, and ultimately expel phosphine gas. It costs them energy to do this, so why they do it is not clear. The phosphine could be just a waste product, but other scientists have suggested purposes like warding off rival bacteria.
Another MIT team-member, Dr Clara Sousa Silva, was also thinking about searching for phosphine as a ‘biosignature’ gas of non-oxygen-using life on planets around other stars, because normal chemistry makes so little of it.
She comments: “Finding phosphine on Venus was an unexpected bonus! The discovery raises many questions, such as how any organisms could survive. On Earth, some microbes can cope with up to about 5% of acid in their environment – but the clouds of Venus are almost entirely made of acid.”
Other possible biosignatures in the Solar System may exist, like methane on Mars and water venting from the icy moons Europa and Enceladus. On Venus, it has been suggested that dark streaks where ultraviolet light is absorbed could come from colonies of microbes. The Akatsuki spacecraft, launched by the Japanese space agency JAXA, is currently mapping these dark streaks to understand more about this “unknown ultraviolet absorber”.
The team believes their discovery is significant because they can rule out many alternative ways to make phosphine, but they acknowledge that confirming the presence of “life” needs a lot more work. Although the high clouds of Venus have temperatures up to a pleasant 30 degrees centigrade, they are incredibly acidic – around 90% sulphuric acid – posing major issues for microbes to survive there. Professor Sara Seager and Dr Janusz Petkowski, also both at MIT, are investigating how microbes could shield themselves inside droplets.
The team are now eagerly awaiting more telescope time, for example to establish whether the phosphine is in a relatively temperate part of the clouds, and to look for other gases associated with life. New space missions could also travel to our neighbouring planet, and sample the clouds in situ to further search for signs of life.
Professor Emma Bunce, President of the Royal Astronomical Society, congratulated the team on their work:
“A key question in science is whether life exists beyond Earth, and the discovery by Professor Jane Greaves and her team is a key step forward in that quest. I’m particularly delighted to see UK scientists leading such an important breakthrough – something that makes a strong case for a return space mission to Venus.”
Science Minister Amanda Solloway said:
"Venus has for decades captured the imagination of scientists and astronomers across the world.”
“This discovery is immensely exciting, helping us increase our understanding of the universe and even whether there could be life on Venus. I am incredibly proud that this fascinating detection was led by some of the UK’s leading scientists and engineers using state of the art facilities built on our own soil.”
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Phosphine detection FAQ sheet
This animation shows an artist's impression of our Solar System neighbour Venus, where scientists have confirmed the detection of phosphine molecules (represented in the inset towards the end of the video). The molecules were detected in the Venusian high clouds in data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Astronomers have speculated for decades that life could exist in Venus’s high clouds, and the detection of phosphine could point to such extra-terrestrial “aerial” life.
Credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser / L. Calçada & NASA / JPL / Caltech
Further information
The new work appears in “Phosphine Gas in the Cloud Decks of Venus”, Jane S. Greaves, Anita M. S. Richards, William Bains, Paul Rimmer, Hideo Sagawa, David L. Clements, Sara Seager, Janusz J. Petkowski, Clara Sousa-Silva, Sukrit Ranjan, Emily Drabek-Maunder, Helen J. Fraser, Annabel Cartwright, Ingo Mueller-Wodarg, Zhuchang Zhan, Per Friberg, Iain Coulson, E’lisa Lee and Jim Hoge, Nature Astronomy (2020).
A copy of the paper is available from: https://www.nature.com/
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Possible sign of life on Venus stirs up heated debate
“Something weird is happening” in the clouds of the planet next door—but some experts are raising doubts about the quality of the data.
Something deadly might be wafting through the clouds shrouding Venus—a smelly, flammable gas called phosphine that annihilates life-forms reliant on oxygen for survival. Ironically, though, the scientists who today announced sightings of this noxious gas in the Venusian atmosphere say it could be tantalizing—if controversial—evidence of life on the planet next door.
As far as we know, on rocky planets such as Venus and Earth, phosphine can only be made by life—whether human or microbe. Used as a chemical weapon during World War I, phosphine is still manufactured as an agricultural fumigant, is used in the semiconductor industry, and is a nasty byproduct of meth labs. But phosphine is also made naturally by some species of anaerobic bacteria—organisms that live in the oxygen-starved environments of landfills, marshlands, and even animal guts.
Earlier this year, researchers surmised that finding the chemical on other terrestrial planets could indicate the presence of alien metabolisms, and they suggested aiming the sharpest telescopes of the future at faraway exoplanets to probe their atmospheres for signs of the gas.
Now, we may have found signs of phosphine on the planet next door, astronomers report in the journal Nature Astronomy.
“I immediately freaked out, of course. I presumed it was a mistake, but I very much wanted it to not be a mistake,” says study co-author Clara Sousa-Silva, a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who initially identified phosphine as a potential biosignature.
Put simply, phosphine shouldn’t be in the Venusian atmosphere. It’s extremely hard to make, and the chemistry in the clouds should destroy the molecule before it can accumulate to the observed amounts. But it’s too early to conclude that life exists beyond Earth’s shores. Scientists caution that the detection itself needs to be verified, as the phosphine fingerprint described in the study could be a false signal introduced by the telescopes or by data processing.
“It’s tremendously exciting, and we have a sort of obligatory response of first questioning whether the result is real,” says David Grinspoon of the Planetary Science Institute. “When somebody comes up with an extraordinary observation that hasn’t been made before, you wonder if they could have done something wrong.”
But if phosphine really is floating through the Venusian cloud deck, its presence suggests one of two intriguing possibilities: that alien life-forms are deftly linking together phosphorus and hydrogen atoms, or that some completely unanticipated chemistry is crafting phosphine in the absence of life.
Life on a “blasted hellhole”
Venus, the second world from the sun, has long been considered Earth’s twin. It’s about the same size as our home planet, with similar gravity and composition. For centuries, hopeful humans thought its surface might be covered in oceans, lush vegetation, and verdant ecosystems, providing a second oasis for life in the solar system.
Then reality intruded.
Early science observations of the planet next door revealed that it is a menace of a world that could kill Earthlings in multiple ways. Its surface can reach a sweltering 900 degrees Fahrenheit. Tucked beneath as many as 65 miles of cloud and haze, those roasted rocks are smothered by a bone-crushing amount of pressure, more than 90 times what’s felt on Earth’s surface. Plus, the planet’s atmosphere is primarily suffocating carbon dioxide populated by sulfuric acid clouds.
Even so, scientists have considered the possibility that life might exist in the Venusian cloud deck for nearly 60 years, perhaps thriving where conditions are a bit friendlier.
“While the surface conditions of Venus make the hypothesis of life there implausible, the clouds of Venus are a different story altogether,” Carl Sagan and Harold Morowitz wrote in the journal Nature back in 1967.
Despite the acid, the clouds carry the basic ingredients for life as we know it: sunlight, water, and organic molecules. And near the middle of the cloud layer, temperatures and pressures are rather Earthlike. “It’s shirt-sleeve weather, with all these tasty things to eat,” says Martha Gilmore, a Wesleyan University planetary scientist and leader of a proposed mission to Venus, referring to molecules in the planet’s air that microbes could metabolize.
Early observations of the planet revealed that parts of its atmosphere absorb more ultraviolet light than expected, an anomaly that scientists hypothesized could be the work of aerial microbes. While the phenomenon is more likely due to the presence of sulfur-containing compounds, a handful of scientists have since elaborated on the possibility of airborne Venusians, laying out scenarios in which microbes might metabolize sulfur compounds, stay afloat among the ever-present clouds, and even develop life cycles enabled by periods of dormancy at varying altitudes.
“When I first started talking about it, there was a lot of resistance, mostly because it’s such a harshly acidic environment,” says Grinspoon, who has pushed the idea of cloud-borne life on Venus since the mid-1990s.
But everything we’ve learned about life on Earth suggests that it will move into every available nook and cranny. Here, we find microbes thriving in hostile, corrosive environments such as hot springs and volcanic fields. We also know that microbes regularly hitch a ride on cloud particles, and scientists have found organisms flying more than six miles above the Caribbean. Clouds are ephemeral on Earth, so it’s unlikely that they support permanent ecosystems, but on Venus, cloudy days are in the forecast for millions or even billions of years.
“On Venus, that puddle never dries up,” Grinspoon says. “The clouds are continuous and thick and globe-spanning.”
Although Venus is a roasting world today, observations suggest that it once had a liquid water ocean. For most of its history, Venus could have been as habitable as Earth—until sometime in the last billion years, when ballooning greenhouse gases transformed the planet from an oasis into a death trap. Perhaps, as the scorched surface became less hospitable, life-forms migrated into the clouds to avoid certain extinction.
Any life there now is “much more likely to be a relic of a more dominating early biosphere,” says Penelope Boston, a NASA astrobiologist who specializes in studying microbes in weird places on Earth. She’s skeptical, though. “I think it’s a blasted hellhole now, so how much of that ancient signal could have held up?”
The deadly gas of life
In June 2017, Cardiff University’s Jane Greaves and colleagues took a look at Venus using the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, which scans the sky in radio wavelengths from its perch atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. They were looking for rare gases or molecules that might be biological in origin. Among the signatures they spotted was that of phosphine gas, a pyramidal molecule comprising three hydrogen atoms joined to a single phosphorus atom.
Not long after, Greaves got in touch with Sousa-Silva, who spent her years in graduate school working out whether phosphine could be a viable extraterrestrial biosignature. She had concluded that phosphine could be one of life’s beacons, even though paradoxically, it’s lethal to everything on Earth that requires oxygen to survive.
“I was really fascinated by the macabre nature of phosphine on Earth,” she says. “It’s a killing machine ... and almost a romantic biosignature because it was a sign of death.”
In 2019, Greaves, Sousa-Silva, and their colleagues followed up on the initial phosphine observation using ALMA, an array of telescopes on a high Chilean plateau. More sensitive than the Hawaii-based telescope, ALMA also observes the sky at radio frequencies, and it can detect the energy emitted and absorbed by any phosphine molecules spinning in the Venusian atmosphere.
Again, the team detected phosphine. This time, scientists could narrow down the molecule’s signal to equatorial latitudes and an altitude between 32 and 37 miles, where temperatures and pressures aren’t too harsh for life as we know it. Based on the signal’s strength, the team calculated that phosphine’s abundance is roughly 20 parts per billion, or at least a thousand times more than we find on Earth.
In the outer solar system, phosphine is made deep in the interiors of Jupiter and Saturn. Near the giant planets’ cores, the temperatures and pressures are extreme enough to craft the molecule, which then rises through the atmosphere. But on rocky planets, where conditions are significantly less extreme, there’s no known way to make phosphine in the absence of life—it’s just too energetically demanding. In other words, if the observation of phosphine on Venus is right, something must be continually replenishing the molecule in the planet’s atmosphere.
“Life is the only thing that will put energy into making molecules,” Sousa-Silva says. “Otherwise, in the universe, chemistry only happens when it’s energetically favorable.”
Astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Technical University Berlin, who has considered cloud-based Venusian life, agrees a biological explanation for the phosphine is possible, but he thinks other unknown geologic or light-induced chemical reactions might yet account for the signal. “Venus is basically still an alien planet,” he says. “There are a lot of things we don’t understand.”
The study team set out to determine whether phosphine could be made on Venus in the absence of biology. Among the scenarios the scientists investigated were volcanic outgassing, intense lightning strikes, tectonic plates rubbing together, bismuth rain, and cosmic dust. Based on the team’s calculations, none of those events could produce the molecule in such abundance.
“Whether it’s life or not, it has to be a really exotic mechanism,” Sousa-Silva says. “Something weird is happening.”
Getting back to Venus
Still, ALMA observatory scientist John Carpenter is skeptical that the phosphine observations themselves are real. The signal is faint, and the team needed to perform an extensive amount of processing to pull it from the data returned by the telescopes. That processing, he says, may have returned an artificial signal at the same frequency as phosphine. He also notes that the standard for remote molecular identification involves detecting multiple fingerprints for the same molecule, which show up at different frequencies on the electromagnetic spectrum. That’s something that the team has not yet done with phosphine.
“They took the right steps to verify the signal, but I’m still not convinced that this is real,” Carpenter says. “If it’s real, it’s a very cool result, but it needs follow-up to make it really convincing.”
Sousa-Silva agrees that the team needs to confirm the phosphine detection by finding additional fingerprints at other wavelengths. She and her colleagues had planned such observations using the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a plane-mounted telescope, and with NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii. But COVID-19 got in the way, and the team’s attempts have been put on hold.
“It’s disappointing that we don’t have this proof,” Sousa-Silva says.
Even so, Sanjay Limaye, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the discovery is exciting enough to continue searching, and preferably from a much closer vantage point. “It is intriguing that it may point to something strange going on in the atmosphere of Venus, but is it exotic chemistry, or is it life?” he says. “We need to go explore and find out.”
The tentative detection of phosphine is likely to fuel calls for a return to Venus—a trip that some say is long overdue, given that the last time NASA sent a probe to the planet was in 1989. Schulze-Makuch says it’s completely within the realm of possibility to do an atmospheric sample-return mission, sending a spacecraft to swoop through the clouds and gather gas and particles to bring back to Earth.
Several proposed missions are moving through review, including an elaborate, multi-spacecraft concept led by Gilmore of Wesleyan University, which will be evaluated by the planetary science community as it sets its priorities for the next decade of solar system exploration. Gilmore’s concept includes several orbiters and a balloon that would closely study the Venusian atmosphere and look for signs of life.
On the more immediate horizon, a smaller mission to study the deep atmosphere of Venus, named DAVINCI+, is one of the four finalists in NASA’s Discovery program competition. The next mission selection is scheduled to take place in 2021.
“Venus is such a complex, amazing system, and we don’t understand it. And it’s another Earth. It probably had an ocean for billions of years, and it’s right there. It’s just a matter of going,” Gilmore says. “We have the technology right now to go into the atmosphere of Venus. It can be done.”

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Originally published in:
Encyclopedia of Planetary Sciences, edited by J. H. Shirley and R. W. Fainbridge,
905-907, Chapman and Hall, New York, 1997.
Venus is sometimes characterized as Earth's 'twin' because of its close proximity in solar system location (~ 0.72 AU heliocentric distance compared to 1.0 AU) and its similar size (~ 6053 km radius compared to - 6371 km radius), but other close resemblances are few. Besides the more obvious atmospheric composition and pressure differences, and the related extreme temperatures at the surface described elsewhere in this volume, events in the history and evolution of the interior of Venus have left that planet with practically no intrinsic magnetic field. The consequences for the space environment and atmosphere are numerous, ranging from the presence of an 'induced' magnetotail in the wake, to an ionosphere and upper atmosphere that are constantly being scavenged by the passing solar wind.
Venus, like the other terrestrial planets, was presumably accreted from iron and silicate-bearing planetesimals some 4.5 billion years ago. These new planets are all likely to have differentiated in a similar manner, so that they have the common feature of a molten iron-rich core of about half the planet's radius, covered by a crust of the remaining (mainly silicate) material. Only indirect information is available about these cores, but seismic measurements on the surface of Earth tell us that a solid inner core, with a size depending on the size of the planet and on its thermal history, may also be a common feature. Since no seismic measurements have been obtained on the surface of Venus, we cannot be as certain about its interior; however, the large value of the mean density of ~ 5.25 g cm-3 derived from satellite orbits suggests that Venus contains an Earth-like core. Essentially, all other deductions about the interior of Venus are based on models of Earth-like planets with internal temperatures and pressures adjusted for the slightly different radius and possible compositional differences. One of these models has led to the hypothesis that the core of Venus may be completely solid or 'frozen' today, while others propose that core solidification has not yet commenced or has stopped at some time in the past (e.g. Stevenson, Spohn and Schubert, 1983). In all cases, evidence cited in support of these hypotheses always includes the known weakness of the intrinsic magnetic field.
When Mariner 2 flew by Venus in 1962 at a distance of 6.6 planetary radii (Rv), it did not detect any evidence of an Earth-size magnetosphere. Mariner 5, passing within 1.4 Rv in 1967, detected the signatures in the solar wind of deflection around an 'obstacle' at Venus. The small inferred size of that obstacle placed an upper limit on the magnetic dipole moment of Venus of ~ 10-3 that of Earth. Later Venera 4 made magnetic measurements down to 200 km altitude, still detecting no planetary field but providing data that reduced this estimate by about an order of magnitude. In a 1974 flyby, Mariner 10 merely confirmed the existence of a small, nearly planet- size obstacle. Venera 9 and 10 were put into orbit around Venus in 1975, but did not approach Venus closer than ~ 1500 km. Nevertheless, the data that these spacecraft obtained in the wake of the planet provided the first evidence that an Earth-like magnetotail was absent, and that instead a structure related to the interplanetary magnetic field occupied that region of space. The most definitive measurements of the magnetic moment of Venus were obtained during the Pioneer Venus Orbiter mission in its first years of operation (1979-1981). Repeated low-altitude (~ 150 km) passes by that spacecraft over the antisolar region, coupled with dayside observations to the same altitude, proved the insignificance of a field of internal origin in near-Venus space. The observed fields for the most part could be explained as solar wind interaction-induced features, to be described below. The new upper limit on the dipole moment obtained from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter wake measurements placed the Venus intrinsic magnetic field at ~ 10-5 times that of Earth.
Of course, the weakness of the present measurement does not imply that Venus has always been bereft of an intrinsic field. Theories of the dynamos operating in the liquid cores of the newly accreted terrestrial planets suggest that there was a magnetic moment of Venus of the same order as Earth's for about the first billion years of Venus' life. During that time, thermal convection from the heat left over from accretion drove the dynamo. However, after that energy source diminished, there was apparently no source to replace it. While solid core formation in Earth's interior maintains its dynamo to this day by virtue of the related 'stirring' of the molten core around it, Venus appears to either lack the necessary internal ingredients (chemical or physical) for solid core formation, or to have ceased such processes at an earlier time if they resulted in complete core solidification or arrested core solidification. It is important to note that, contrary to popular belief, dynamo theory does not credit the smallness of the magnetic moment to the slow rotation of Venus (a Venus day of ~ 243 Earth days is almost equal to the length of its year of ~ 224 days, and its sense of rotation is retrograde). It is also notable that Venus would not have maintained any remanent crustal magnetic fields from its proposed early period of dynamo activity because the temperatures in the crust are expected to be above the Curie point (below which such fields could persist in rocky materials).
The 'magnetosphere' of Venus that was detected by spacecraft is now known to be an example of an 'induced' magnetosphere. In an induced magnetosphere, the solar wind interacts directly with the planetary ionosphere. The fields and plasmas that are observed are generally of solar wind or ionospheric origin. There are no belts of trapped radiation such as Earth's Van Allen belts, and there is no 'magnetotail' composed of fields of planetary origin. The basic features of an induced magnetosphere are shown in Figure 1. The ionospheric obstacle to the solar wind is defined by a surface called the ionopause. At the ionopause, pressure balance exists between the solar wind dynamic pressure on the outside and the thermal pressure of the ionospheric ions and electrons on the inside. Outside of the ionopause the solar wind interaction has all of the features characteristic to a planetary magnetosphere. A bow shock forms upstream of the obstacle. An interesting feature of the Venus bow shock is that it appears to have a location that varies with the solar cycle. The 'nose', or subsolar position, of the bow shock at sunspot maximum is near 1.5 Rv, but the terminator location moves in to - 2.1 Rv. Inside of the bow shock the solar wind plasma is deflected around the obstacle in a magnetosheath region, which is sometimes referred to as an ionosheath since the obstacle is an ionosphere. The embedded interplanetary magnetic field is compressed and draped around the obstacle in the magnetosheath region in the usual way.
|Fig. 1. Illustration of the major features of the solar wind interaction with the ionosphere of Venus. The solid dots represent the neutral atmosphere, while the circled plus symbols represent ionized atmosphere. The ionized atmosphere above the ionopause is removed by the solar wind.|
Inside of the ionopause the plasma changes from solar wind-dominated to ionospheric in origin. During the primary Pioneer Venus mission, which occurred at a time of high solar activity when the planetary ionospheres are densest, this boundary between the solar wind and ionosphere proper occurred at an average altitude of about 300 km, flaring to ~ 800 km average altitude near the terminator. The boundary, which moves up and down in response to changing external (solar wind) pressure, was typically thin at a few tens of kilometers, although it increases in thickness as its altitude decreases. The observations indicated that the magnetic fields of interplanetary origin in the magnetosheath generally remain confined above the ionosphere proper, although small-scale (dimensions of a few kilometers) field increases (to ~ 100 nT) of still-unknown origin were observed. These field intrusions appeared to have twisted internal structures and so were dubbed 'flux ropes'. The exception to this behavior occurred on the rare occasions (about 15% of the time) when the solar wind pressure was high enough to drive the pressure-balance boundary to altitudes of ~ 250 km or less (the ionospheric thermal pressure increases as altitude decreases down to about 190 km altitude). At these times it appeared as if the interplanetary magnetic field in the magnetosheath penetrated the ionosphere to at least the spacecraft minimum altitude of ~ 150 km. Its magnitude in the ionosphere can reach -150 nT.
The nightside solar wind interaction features at altitudes below several hundred kilometers also show a dichotomy with solar wind pressure. When the conditions for tile 'unmagnetized' dayside ionospheres prevail, the nightside ionosphere is supplied by planetary plasma flowing across the terminator from the dayside. The observed nightside ionospheric magnetic fields are fluctuating and weak (~ 10 nT) at these times, and do not appear to be twisted like the dayside flux ropes. Near midnight, however, steady, almost vertical magnetic fields of a few tells of nanotesla were observed in conjunction with ionospheric density depletions called 'holes' by their discoverers (Brace, et al., 1982). These features are up to a significant fraction (~ 1/4) of the planetary radius in horizontal scale, and they appear to have a field 'polarity' (e.g. sunward or antisunward) that depends on the interplanetary magnetic field orientation and the associated draped field in the magnetosheath, Their origin and nature remain controversial. The 'holes' disappear when the solar wind pressure is high. The nightside counterpart of the large-scale magnetosheath field penetration into the dayside ionosphere appears to be a large-scale horizontal field of somewhat smaller magnitude (tens of nanotesla) throughout the nightside. Its relationship to the dayside field is still poorly understood. It should be noted that the high solar wind pressure scenario is expected to be common during solar minimum, when the ionospheric pressure is always weaker than at solar maximum.
The high-altitude wake of Venus is permeated with structured magnetic fields that generally point sunward or antisunward and often exhibit a 'double-lobed' structure like an intrinsic planetary magnetotail. However, examination of the polarities of the fields in the lobes shows them to be coupled closely to the interplanetary field and resulting draped magnetosheath field orientations. As shown in Figure 1, this 'induced' magnetotail can be pictured as an extension of the magnetosheath, with the draped interplanetary fields sinking into the ionospheric obstacles' wake. The draping of the field in the induced magnetotail is observed to be enhanced beyond that in the surrounding magnetosheath. This enhancement has been attributed to the 'mass loading' of those interplanetary flux tubes that pass closest to the ionopause and form the magnetotail by virtue of heavy ionospheric ion production on those passing flux tubes. In this sense, Venus can be likened to a comet, which has an induced magnetotail of similar origin.
The authors are supported for work on this subject by NASA grant NAGW 2- 501 through the Pioneer Venus project.
Brace, L. H., Theis, R. F., Mayr, H. G. et al. (1982) Holes in the nightside ionosphere of Venus. J. Geophys. Res., 87, 199.
Hunten, D. M., Colin, L., Donahue, T. M. and Moroz, V. I. (eds) (1993) Venus. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
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Abstract
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,
VOL. 23, NO. 14,
P. 1857, 1996
doi:10.1029/96GL01589
Venusian k 2 tidal Love number from Magellan and PVO tracking data
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
The k 2 potential Love number which scales the tidal deformation of Venus by the Sun has been estimated from Doppler tracking of Magellan and Pioneer Venus Orbiter (PVO) spacecraft data. The nominal range for k 2 from theoretical models is 0.23 ≤ k 2 ≤ 0.29 for a liquid iron core and about 0.17 if the iron core has solidified. Our best estimate of this parameter is k 2 = 0.295±0.066(2× formal σ) and supports the hypothesis that Venus core is liquid.
Received 23 October 1995; accepted 10 April 1996; .
Citation: (1996), Venusian k 2 tidal Love number from Magellan and PVO tracking data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23(14), 1857–1860, doi:10.1029/96GL01589.
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