Venus Express has made the first detection of an atmospheric loss process on Venus's day-side. Last year, the spacecraft revealed that most of the lost atmosphere escapes from the night-side.
Aboard the ISS, Commander Mike Fincke and Flight Engineer Sandy Magnus paid tribute to the crew of Apollo 8 in commemorating the 40th anniversary of the flight of Frank Borman, James Lovell and Bill Anders, who became the first humans to orbit the moon.
THEMIS has overturned a longstanding belief about the interaction between solar particles and Earth's protective magnetic field. This could help predict when the solar storms that disrupt power grids, satellites & GPS signals, could be especially severe.