The Venera (Венера, pron) series probes were developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather data from Venus, Venera being the Russian name for Venus. As with some of the Soviet Union`s other planetary probes, the later versions were launched in pairs with a second vehicle being launched soon after the first of the pair. Ten p....
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any of a series of unmanned Soviet planetary probes that were sent to Venus. Venera 2 (launched 1965) flew to within 24,000 km (15,000 miles) of ... [3 related articles]
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A series of Soviet probes designed to fly by, orbit, and land on Venus. The Venera spacecraft, unlike the Soviet Mars probes, were tremendously successful, and made the first soft landings on and sent back the first pictures from the surface of Venus. Venera 1 Venera 1 The first spac...
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Venera is a cultivated variety of potato.
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