Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble
March 21, 1995
| Credit | L. Esposito (University of Colorado, Boulder), and NASA/ESA |
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| PIA Number | PIA01544 |
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Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of Venus, taken on January 24 1995, when Venus was at a distance of 70.6 million miles (113.6 million kilometers) from Earth.
Venus is covered with clouds made of sulfuric acid, rather than the water-vapor clouds found on Earth. These clouds permanently shroud Venus' volcanic surface, which has been radar mapped by spacecraft and by Earth-based telescopes.
