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Venus has a bow shock in many respects similar to that of the Earth. The Venus bow shock was probed twice by Mariner 5, once by Mariner 10, Venera 4, and Venera 6 (refs 1–4 respectively) and repeatedly by Venera 9 and 10 (ref. 5). The Pioneer Venus orbiter is now circling Venus in a 24-h elliptical orbit which crosses the bow shock twice a day6. Here we report the somewhat surprising result that the Venus bow shock is not as strong as the terrestrial bow shock.
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Russell, C., Elphic, R. & Slavin, J. Pioneer magnetometer observations of the Venus bow shock. Nature 282, 815–816 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/282815a0
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