The planet Venus has a new incredible premiere that is very important and has a major impact for humanity, and this in the conditions where scientists have not managed to do something similar until now. As you already know very well, last week two space probes flew over the planet Venus for the first time in tandem, and one of them, the one called BepiColombo, managed to record the sound of the solar winds near the planet.
The planet Venus is the closest to Earth, but only now have scientists for the first time managed to record the sound of the solar winds near it, something that comes as a major surprise after years of missions. ESA, the European Space Agency, managed to do this with the BepiColombo space probe, which has the mission of reaching Mercury, but uses the gravitational power of the planet Venus to get there.
Planet Venus: The INCREDIBLE Premiere with Impact on Humanity
The planet Venus had the sound of the solar winds recorded from an altitude of 550 kilometers above its surface, the space probe using its magnetometer to capture what was heard around it. Scientists say that this recording would not represent the sound that would be heard near the planet Venus outside the atmosphere, but a transformation into data of what would be heard if the wind could be heard as it happens on Earth .
"This was the first time we were able to obtain such multidimensional measurements of the environment around Venus. This could allow us to see, for example, how the solar wind interacts with the planet and its atmosphere and how fast the processes are. We can look for carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and other aerosols, which has never been done before with this type of instrument. There hasn't been a European mission to Venus since Venus Express [which lost contact with Earth in 2014]. We hope to make some measurements with BepiColombo that could be compared to the Venus Express measurements to see how things have changed.”
The planet Venus was also flown by another space probe called the Solar Orbiter, but those from NASA did not publish information about the solar winds that their ship's magnetometer would have recorded. Even so, the information that the two space probes have collected is very important for the way the planet Venus will be observed in the future, scientists being able to better understand what is happening around them thanks to these recordings.
The planet Venus will continue to be monitored by scientists, but it remains to be seen to what extent things will change when it comes to the perception of phenomena of this kind.
