Venus surface: NASA/JPL ... An orbiter carrying a spectrometer tuned to these transparent ‘windows’ in the light spectrum could analyse the composition of the planet’s surface from above the ...

But it turns out that Venus’ atmosphere is transparent to at least five wavelengths of light that can help identify different minerals. Venus Express proved it would work: ...

Researchers’ detection of two gases, phosphine and ammonia, in the clouds of Venus raises speculation about possible life forms in the planet’s atmosphere.

This radar image captured by the Magellan probe shows a region on Venus' surface approximately 180 miles (300 kilometers) across, and located in a vast plain to the south of Aphrodite Terra.

A set of images of the Venus south polar vortex at 3.8 microns acquired by VIRTIS. The images show the temperature of the clouds top at about 40 miles (65 kilometers) altitude.