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On this day in space on November 8th 2005 Europe launched

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its first mission to Venus.

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The spacecraft was called Venus Express Venus is a Hothouse

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Planet lava flows on its surface and the atmospheric

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pressure can easily Crush an unprotected spacecraft.

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Even from orbit Venus Express had to survive harsh radiation,

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but the spacecraft lasted for more than nine years during

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that time. It's so weird Vortex spiraling around Venus is South

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Pole. It also possible signs of active volcanoes.

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Because Express also discovered that the planet generates

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its own Aurora's be the rarest happen when particles from the

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Sun hit charged particles in the atmosphere late in the Venus

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Express Mission controllers told the spacecraft to dip down

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into penis Cloud, even though the spacecraft wasn't designed

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to do this it performed.

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Well, but eventually it stops listening to commands the spacecraft

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burned up in the atmosphere in January of 2015 never happened

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on this day in space.