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Soviet-era Venus probe plunges back to Earth after 53 years

Russian space agency Roscosmos on Saturday said a Soviet space probe that took off in March 1972 to explore the planet Venus crashed into the Indian Ocean. Planetary lander Kosmos 482 never made it to ...
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NASA and China May Dominate Mars, but the Soviets Are Still Kings of Venus, Here's Why

The Soviet space program post-1966 is somewhat of a cruel joke. It's as if the tragic, untimely death of Sergei Korolev in 1966 doomed the Soviet Space Program to endless failure from the N1 to the ...
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Soviet Probe Melted After Just 53 Minutes On Venus — But Not Before Sending Humanity Its First-Ever Photos

In 1975, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9 lander became the first spacecraft to transmit photographs from the surface of Venus, surviving only 53 minutes before succumbing to the planet’s extreme ...
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Fact Check: Does Viral Post Really Show ‘Clearest Image of Venus’?

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An old viral image of the surface of the planet Venus was making the ...