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The Surface of Venus from Venera 14

By |2025-05-11T09:09:07-04:00May 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day If you could stand on Venus -- what would you see? Pictured is the view from Venera 14, a robotic Soviet lander which parachuted and air-braked down through the thick Venusian atmosphere in March of 1982. The desolate landscape it saw included flat rocks, vast empty terrain, and a featureless [...]

Venus and the Triply Ultraviolet Sun

By |2025-03-16T09:09:07-04:00March 16th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day This was a very unusual type of solar eclipse. Typically, it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses the Sun. In 2012, though, the planet Venus took a turn. Like a solar eclipse by the Moon, the phase of Venus became a continually thinner crescent as Venus became increasingly better aligned [...]

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