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Scientists Have a Radical Plan to Grab a Sample of Venus's Toxic Atmosphere
Offering incredibly high temperatures, crushing pressure, and a thick mix of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, the atmosphere ...
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History Crashes to Earth: The Long Journey of Venus Probe Kosmos 482
During the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s, the USSR launched 29 spacecraft towards Venus, the planet ...
What we know about the Soviet spacecraft that will return to Earth this week
As the last remnant of the Soviet Venus program left in Earth’s orbit, Kosmos 482 is not your average piece of space junk ...
More than 50 years after trying to reach Venus, a failed Soviet spacecraft is about to return to Earth
Venera 1 was launched in 1961, only four years after Sputnik 1, the first satellite. Venera 7, in 1970, was the first ...
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A failed Soviet Venus lander will fall back to Earth after being stranded for 53 years
A Venus lander launched by the Soviet Union in 1972 has been predicted to fall back to Earth some time in May.
NASA’s DAVINCI Mission: A Daring Dive Into Venus’ Inferno
NASA’s DAVINCI mission is set to revolutionize our understanding of Venus. This daring expedition will send a probe plunging ...
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Rare rainbow clouds captured over Yulong Snow Mountain
A man in Yunnan, China, filmed stunning rainbow-colored clouds above Yulong Snow Mountain on April 28, 2025. The shimmering ...
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China Plans To Bring Back Samples of Venusian Clouds
Some time in next ten years, a Chinese mission aims to do what’s never been done before: collect cloud particles from Venus ...
A defunct Soviet probe from the 70s will crash to Earth next week
Each cloud represents in visible form (due to water droplets) a rising column of air,” the Earth Observatory says. NASA/Earth Observatory A blast from the past will be hitting Earth next week, as a ...