ESA, "Venus Express" was exactly like the Earth image shows Venus.

<P> <CENTER> </ CENTER> <P> </ P> <P align=center> "Venus Express" simulation diagram </ P> <P> <CENTER> </ CENTER> <P> </ P> .<P align=center> "Venus Express," to draw the first southern hemisphere map </ P> <P> Recently, researchers used the European Space Agency probe "Venus Express" first drawn map of the southern hemisphere that Venus and Earth in the past may .very similar. .</ P> <P> ESA 14, said a communique, the Venus around the "misty", generally the camera can not see its true face. .The "Venus Express" to infrared wavelength observations of the southern hemisphere for the first map drawn. .Map sheets, including more than 1,000 individual images, taken in May 2006 to December 2007 rooms. .</ P> <P> researchers believe that Venus may be plateau on the continent in the past, they formed after the eruption, the former surrounded by the sea. .Mapping the work of leading researchers at the University of Münster, Germany Niels Mueller said that although this is only speculation, but at least be clear that the plateau of rocks and other places are different. .</ P> <P> ESA pointed out that the 70's to 80's, Russia's probe found only on Venus similar basalt rock, and the "Venus Express," but in Phoebe and Aerfalei .Gio plateau observed color is more light, more distant age of the rock. .On Earth, this rock is called granite, the formation of continental structure. .</ P> <P> granite formation and water and is closely related to plate tectonics, so Muller speculated that if Venus does exist in the granite, it means the planet once had oceans, and plate movement occurred. .These characteristics are very similar to the Earth. .</ P> <P> ESA said that the new map is expected to become astronomers understand the characteristics of the new tools of Venus. .</ P> </ p>.