Venus
Flyby 2 Highlights
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View animations (July 2007 update) of Venus and the spacecraft path from:
above Venus’ north pole
the direction of the
spacecraft
Highlights (July 2007 update) for Venus
Flyby 2
Minimum altitude above
Venus:
338.2 kilometers (210.1 miles) on June 5, 2007 11:08 pm UTC
Maximum spacecraft speed relative to center of Venus:
13.531 kilometers per second (8.408 miles per second or 30,268 miles per hour)
Distance from Earth and Sun (1 AU = average Earth-Sun distance):
Earth-spacecraft: 0.7345 AU (109.87 million kilometers, 68.27 million miles)
Sun-spacecraft: 0.7222 AU (108.04 million kilometers, 67.14 million miles)