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Oceans on Venus May Never Have Existed
"But given it likely never had oceans, it is hard to imagine Venus ever having supported Earth-like life, which requires liquid water." Several spacecraft have successfully landed on the surface ...
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Checking Up On Earth’s Sister Planet: NASA’s Upcoming Venus Missions
Yet by the time the Vega 2 mission reported its successful landing in 1984, the USSR which had been running the Venera and Vega programs ceased their exploration of Venus. Even so the 1980s saw 8 ...
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Why Mars landings are more likely to fail than succeed
Over the last 50 years, spacecraft have landed on over half a dozen worlds. Including Venus, Saturn's moon Titan, a comet, and more. But nowhere has proven more treacherous than the Red Planet ...
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Robots lead the way: Behind the scenes of cosmic exploration
On the two closest planets—Venus and Mars—Earth probes have already landed (the first successful landing on Venus by the Venera 7 mission took place back in 1970), and the surface of the ...