What's the deal with Venus?

[Racoon]

I just found out that Venus' highest peak is the Maxwell Montes massif in the Ishtar Terra highlands.

and here I thought "Ishtar" was just a really bad movie!

[Tormod]

Originally Posted by chendoh

It's only going to get hotter for Venus.
A new sattelite/probe , ESA's Venus Express will be arriving april, 11

Want to go? see bottom of link,
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEME02NFGLE_index_0.html

And I am going to be at the European Space Operations Centre, ESOC, in Darmstadt, Germany, during the arrival.

Ah, the perks of working for a space agency!

[Pyrotex]

Originally Posted by Tormod

And I am going to be at the European Space Operations Centre, ESOC, in Darmstadt, Germany, during the arrival.
Ah, the perks of working for a space agency!

Good for you, Tormod!!
Take me with you, please?
We just had a visitor today who wants us to assist the Taiwan space agency to build an agricultural survey satellite that will work with the German RapidEye constellation. Lots of travel involved. Ahh, if I were a younger man.

[Tormod]

Originally Posted by Pyrotex

Take me with you, please?

No problem. Where should I send my private suborbital plane?

[Tormod]

Oh, you're in Houston. I'm sadly not allowed to land there anymore after some, uhm, "incidents" related to close fly-bys of control towers etc.

[InfiniteNow]

Austin's only about a 2 hour drive away.