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- The Soviet Union's Venera 11 and 12 spacecraft studied Venus' atmosphere and landed on the surface. They were also meant to return color images but the lens caps failed to pop off. Their data gave evidence of lightning and thunder in Venus' atmosphere, and discovered carbon monoxide at low altitudes.
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There have been 46 space missions to the planet Venus (including gravity-assist flybys). Missions to Venus constitute part of the exploration of Venus. The Soviet Union, followed by the United States, have soft landed probes on the surface.
The Venera (Russian: Вене́ра, pronounced [vʲɪˈnʲɛrə] 'Venus') program was a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus. Thirteen probes successfully entered the Venusian atmosphere, including the two Vega program and Venera-Halley probes.
NameModelMissionLaunch1VA No. 1Flyby4 February 19611VA No. 2Flyby12 February 19612MV-1 No.1Atmospheric probe25 August 19622MV-1 No.2Atmospheric probe1 September 1962The Soviet Union's Venera 11 and 12 spacecraft studied Venus' atmosphere and landed on the surface. They were also meant to return color images but the lens caps failed to pop off. Their data gave evidence of lightning and thunder in Venus' atmosphere, and discovered carbon monoxide at low altitudes.
On March 1, 1966, the Venera 3 Soviet space probe crash-landed on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. Its sister craft Venera 2 had failed due to overheating shortly before completing its flyby mission.
Mission (1960–1969)LaunchArrivalTermination20 May 20107 December 201529 May 202420 May 20108 December 201023 April 201520 May 2010December 201021 May 20109 November 200511 April 200616 December 2014Nov 9, 2017 · Dozens of spacecraft have launched to explore Venus, but not all have been successful. NASA's Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to visit any planet beyond Earth when it flew past Venus on Dec. 14, 1962. NASA is planning two new missions to Venus: VERITAS, and DAVINCI.
Sep 18, 2020 · Mariner 5 was a NASA spacecraft that made its closest approach to Venus on Oct. 19, 1967. The spacecraft measured magnetic fields on Venus and in interplanetary space, and it examined charged...
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Mar 25, 2019 · Venera 13, a Soviet spacecraft, was the first lander to transmit color images from the surface of Venus. Although other landers arrived before and after it, pictures from Venera 13 are more...
