ESA's Venus EXPRESS(VIRTIS) mission is still every bit as dead as that
of our MI/NSA~NASA wants it to be dead. The thermal imaging data from
their robust PFS instrument has been entirely taboo/nondisclosure
rated (aka need to know) from the very get go.

The surface of Venus is still giving off the average of 20.5 w/m2
(roughly 256 fold greater core energy loss than Earth), and the lower
atmospheric environment of Venus has been rather nicely insulated at
that, as well as having that fairly robust S8 layer as being an extra
nifty solar isolation benefit so that damn little of the available
solar influx ever reaches that geothermally forced surface or even
contributing all that much solar energy into that dense lower
atmosphere of what's mostly S8 and CO2, that's otherwise unavoidably
made and sustained as toasty hot from the surface up.

Their mission "status reports" are all the way down to being robo
status quo. It's as though they're down to the science data sharing
dregs of a pair of soup cans and some string.

ESA's mission demise is too bad because, Venus has otherwise been so
nearby (merely 100 fold greater distance than our moon), so freaking
alive and kicking, as well as so ET accessible (except for the likes
of us village heathen idiots that still can't honestly manage to walk
upon our very own nearby moon).
-
Brad Guth