It sounds like Venus Express is doing well, with the Near Earth Commissioning activities all done successfully and now they’ve also commissioned VIRTIS (the Visible and Infrared Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) and it has returned images of the Earth-Moon system back to ESA. The Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC) has also had first light and returned images.
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