Europe Goes to Mars and Venus -- The Mars and Venus Express Missions
Abstract
The European Space Agency has undertaken an ambitious planetary exploration programme aiming at Mars, the Moon, Mercury, Titan and comet Wirtanen. Now, a new mission to Venus has been added that would reuse both the Mars Express bus and many of its instruments, hence its name of Venus Express.
- Publication:
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Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2003
- Bibcode:
- 2003LPI....34.1145C