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4 days ago · The spacecraft passed Venus on 05 February 1974, at a closest range of 5768 km at 17:01 UT and returned the first close-up images of Venus. This also marked the first time a spacecraft used a gravity assist from one planet to help it reach another.
Sep 25, 2024 · Synopsis. A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched to discover the origin of the spool and the race that created it.
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3 days ago · On 15 December 1970, Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to soft land on another planet and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth. [222] In 1974, Mariner 10 swung by Venus to bend its path towards Mercury and took ultraviolet photographs of the clouds, revealing the extraordinarily high wind speeds in the Venusian atmosphere.
5 days ago · The spacecraft succeeded where many had failed, peering Venus’ suffocating clouds to showing us the planet’s face for the first time. ... Magellan’s first mapping cycle from September 1990 ...
Oct 9, 2024 · Because of the all-enveloping clouds, little was known about Venus’s surface, atmosphere, and evolution before the early 1960s, when the first radar observations were undertaken and spacecraft made the first flybys of the planet.
- Venus and Earth share similarities in their masses, sizes, densities, and relative locations in the solar system. Since they were presumably formed...
- Venus orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 108 million km (67 million miles), which is about 0.7 times Earth's distance from the Sun.
- When viewed through a telescope, Venus presents a brilliant yellow-white and a featureless face to the observer. Its obscured appearance results fr...
- Venus's mean radius is 6,051.8 km (3,760.4 miles), or about 95 percent of Earth's at the Equator, while its mass is 4.87 × 1024 kg, or 81.5 percent...
- Venus has the most massive atmosphere of all the terrestrial planets. Its gaseous envelope is composed of more than 96 percent carbon dioxide and 3...
4 days ago · The Soviet space program pioneered many aspects of space exploration: 1957: First intercontinental ballistic missile and orbital launch vehicle, the R-7 Semyorka. 1957: First satellite, Sputnik 1. 1957: First animal in Earth orbit, the dog Laika on Sputnik 2.
Sep 30, 2024 · The Soviet Venera 1 spacecraft (1961) made it to Venus’s vicinity in just 97 days (a little more than 3 months) but missed the planet by about 100,000 km (62,000 miles). NASA’s space probe Mariner 2 (1962) reached Venus in 110 days (about 3 months and 20 days).
