esahubble_opo9516g March 21st, 1995
Credit: L. Esposito (University of Colorado, Boulder), and NASA/ESA
This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of theplanet Venus, taken on January 24 1995, when Venus was at a distance of 70.6 million miles (113.6 million kilometres) from Earth. Venus is covered with clouds made of sulfuric acid, rather than thewater-vapor clouds found on Earth. These clouds permanently shroudVenus' volcanic surface, which has been radar mapped by spacecraft and from Earth-based telescope.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9516g/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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