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X-Raying the Dark Side of Venus—Scatter from Venus’ Magnetotail?

Weber, M.; Peres, G.; Reale, F. +3 more

We analyze significant X-ray, EUV, and UV emission coming from the dark side of Venus observed with Hinode/XRT and Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (SDO/AIA) during a transit across the solar disk that occurred in 2012. As a check we have analyzed an analogous Mercury transit that occurred in 2006. We have used the latest ve…