First Time Movie Of An Electron (Physical Review Letters)

The animation above shows the interaction between Venus and the solar wind. It is believed that Venus had as much water as Earth. The water vapour, however, was stripped off into space by the rain of energetic particles from the Sun known as the solar wind.

 

The spacecraft Venus Express has revealed that an ancient global warming on Venus turned a world similar to Earth (in mass and size) into the noxious planet it is today. The planet is consumed in clouds of sulphuric acid, blasted by violent winds of up to 100 metres per second, and crushed with air pressures some 100 times greater than on Earth.