Venus
Flyby 1 Highlights
View Venus and the spacecraft path from:
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the direction of the Sun |
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above Venus' North pole |
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the direction of the Earth |
View animations (January 2007 update) of Venus and the spacecraft path from:
above Venus’ north pole
the direction of the
spacecraft
Highlights (January 2007 update) for Venus
Flyby 1
Minimum altitude
(approximate since the surface is not perfectly round) above Venus:
2,987.3 kilometers (1,856.2 miles) on October 24, 2006 8:34 am UTC
Maximum spacecraft speed relative to center of Venus:
12.395 kilometers per second (7.702 miles per second or 27,726 miles per hour)
Distance from Earth and Sun (1 AU = average Earth-Sun distance):
Earth-spacecraft: 1.7163 AU (256.75 million kilometers, 159.54 million miles)
Sun-spacecraft: 0.7222 AU (108.05 million kilometers, 67.136 million miles)