Venera 1
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Venera 1, also known as Venera-1VA No.2 and occasionally in the West as Sputnik 8, was the first spacecraft to perform an interplanetary flight and the first to fly past Venus, as part of the Soviet U
Mockup of the Venera 1 spacecraft
Venera← Tyazhely SputnikVenera 2MV-1 No.1 →
Route of Venera 1 on a Soviet stamp
MESSENGER Venus 630 nm stretch
Venus
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Venus is the second planet from the Sun. Similar in size and mass to Earth, Venus has no liquid water, and its atmosphere is far thicker and denser than that of any other rocky body in the Solar Syste
Venera 1
…as Venera-1VA No.2 and occasionally in the West as Sputnik 8, was the first spacecraft to perform an interplanetary flight and the first to fly past Venus, as part of the Soviet Union's Venera programme. Launched in February 1961, it was intended as an impactor, but flew past Venus on 19 May of the same…
False color image of Venus as taken by Mariner 10 in 1974.
Spherical view of radar data of the surface of Venus, highlighting surface features (1989, Magellan). The colours do not represent the appearance of the surface in visible light.
Radar mosaic of two pancake domes in Venus's Eistla region—both 65 km (40 mi) wide and less than 1 km (0.62 mi) high
Impact craters on the surface of Venus (false-colour, 3D projection image reconstructed from radar data)