perfidy

Well, not really. But the European Space Agency's Venus Express probe appears to have made orbit around our toasty sister planet, and will begin its two-day mission to, well, probe, the secrets hidden behind the ever present clouds. In case you're wondering why the mission is so short, that's Venusian days, which are about five hundred times longer than our pathetic Earth days.

Pretty cool, as this is the first mission to Venus for the Europeans, and the first mission at all in over a decade.