Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus.

Scientists discovered unexpected images of Venus in the background of Earth's weather satellite photos, enabling them to ...

Image of the Earth taken by Himawari 8 at 18:00 (UTC) on August 11, 2018. The zoom-in images show Venus captured in the ...

And sometimes, Venus shows up in the background behind Earth by coincidence. Looking through the Himawari data, Nishiyama and his team found 437 cases where Venus shows up as a dot in the background.

Tasked to look at Earth, Japan's Himawari-8 and -9 meteorological satellites have been successfully repurposed to observe changes in Venus' cloud-top ...

New research on the orbits of these mysterious asteroids near Venus stress the need for better space rock surveillance.