Without a magnetosphere, what happens at Venus is very different. Venus's only protection from the solar wind is the charged outer layer of its atmosphere called the ionosphere.

ESA Extends Missions Studying Mars, Venus And Earth’s Magnetosphere Date: February 10, 2009 Source: European Space Agency Summary: ESA's Science Programme Committee has extended the operations ...

Draped around the magnetosphere is a region called the ‘magnetosheath’ where the solar wind is slowed and heated. On 10 August 2021, BepiColombo passed by Venus to slow down and adjust course ...

Researchers recently discovered that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth's magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere, has much larger repercussions for Venus. The giant explosions ...

The convergence of BepiColombo and Solar Orbiter spacecraft at Venus in August 2021 was a rare opportunity to investigate the ‘stagnation region’, an area of the venusian magnetosphere where ...

Venus Express was launched in November 2005 and reached Venus April 2006, initiating the most comprehensive investigation of Earth’s sister planet to date. Its mission was extended once to last ...

Researchers recently discovered that a common space weather phenomenon on the outskirts of Earth's magnetic bubble, the magnetosphere, has much larger repercussions for Venus. The giant explosions ...

Since Earth’s magnetosphere is 10 times larger, reconnection at Venus would be expected to occur 1-3 radii down its tail. That is exactly where Venus Express detected the reconnection events.

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission, enroute to study Mercury, and the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter, which is observing the Sun from different perspectives, are both using a number of gravity-assists from V… ...