Space exploration often focuses on Mars, but Venus, our closest neighbor, holds many mysteries. Its surface is a true hell, but its atmosphere, at a certain altitude, offers more temperate conditions.

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup.

"It has been observed on Venus since the very first nightside observations in the K-band ... a very good spatial resolution," Japan Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) scientist Javier Peralta ...