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On July 22, 1972, a spacecraft landed on Venus! The Soviet space probe Venera 8 was the second spacecraft to successfully ...
However, its conceptual innovations, engineering challenges, and historical context offer a fascinating glimpse into the ...
In an unexpected twist, two Earth-based weather satellites, Himawari-8 and Himawari-9, have provided invaluable data on Venus ...
The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...
A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...
Only one of the known Venus co-orbital asteroids follows a nearly circular orbit; the others move on more elongated paths that sometimes bring them closer to Earth, making them easier to detect.
A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus. Its uncontrolled entry was confirmed by both the Russian Space Agency and European ...
A spacecraft was en route to Venus when phosphine happened to be spotted. By Catherine Thorbecke. September 18, 2020, 6:42 PM. 2:45. The northern hemisphere of Venus is displayed in this global ...
Lost in space. Meanwhile, the botched probe that failed to get from Earth to Venus was "renamed" Kosmos-482. According to the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), a ...
The answer to whether tiny bacterial life-forms really do exist in the clouds of Venus could be revealed once and for all by ...
A Soviet spacecraft, Kosmos 482, launched in 1972 for a failed Venus mission, is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this weekend. The half-ton, titanium-clad spacecraft is likely to survive ...