Unless you live underground or in a very cloudy part of the world, it was pretty hard to miss the crazy conjunction of Venus and Jupiter Monday night that, when joined by the crescent moon, smiled on one side of Earth while frowning on the other.
But as millions of skywatchers reveled in that display, the folks over at ESA were preparing to release news about a slightly different view of lovely Venus.
Best known for being the brightest planet visible without the aid of a telescope, Venus gets even more interesting when you have the technology to peer under her skirts, so to speak, using wavelengths of light that are invisible to the human eye.
—Image courtesy ESA/MPS/DLR/IDA
In ultraviolet light, ESA's Venus Express probe shows the planet as a smoky blue sphere with roiling bands of light and dark that highlight its complex structures of sulfuric acid clouds.
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