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Mercury Will Be At Elongation This Week Up In The Sky

Two new missions – DAVINCI and VERITAS – are now getting planned by NASA (NASA later renamed DAVINCI+ to just DAVINCI). The European Space Agency will also send the EnVision mission to Venus in the early 2030s. A further puzzle is the “unknown absorber.” This is a layer of still-unidentified particles in Venus’ atmosphere that absorbs ultraviolet light in a manner similar to some microbes on Earth. The particles are even identified see this website to be non-circular in shape and about the identical size as bacteria. That paper is still awaiting publication but consists of outcomes from the James...