Two spacecraft fly past Venus on the same day? ????️

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Well technically...

Venus spins very slowly. It takes 243 Earth days to make one rotation.

So while in Earth time our Solar Orbiter flew past Venus in February and Juice is scheduled to do it on 31st August if you were on Venus, both would be happening on the exact same day.

Juice will make use of Venus’s gravity to get a boost on its journey to Jupiter. This is a purely operational manoeuvre, During the flyby, no instruments will be switched on – after all, they’re designed to work at chilly Jupiter rather than toasty Venus.

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