I fell in love with them one June twilight long ago, when I first came to Bermuda. For me, these magnificent clouds, piled high to the heavens, tinged and shaded with every colour of orange, purple ...

Clouds regularly punctuate Earth’s blue sky, but on Venus the clouds never part, for the planet is wrapped entirely in a 20 km-thick veil of carbon dioxide and sulphuric dioxide haze. This view shows ...