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Venera facts for kids

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Venera is the Russian name for the planet Venus. It is also the name of the USSR program for sending spacecraft to the planet Venus. A Venera 3 spacecraft was the first manmade object to land on another planet in our solar system. Venera 3 crash landed on Venus on 1 March 1966. Venera 7 also landed on Venus. It landed in 1970. It was the first spacecraft to send information back to Earth after landing on another planet.

Images for kids

  • Mapa de sondas sobre Venus

    Location of Soviet Venus landers. Map based on mapping from space probe Pioneer Venus Orbiter.

  • Space probe Venera on the venus surface (artist recreation)

    Space probe Venera on the venus surface (artist recreation).

  • Venera 1 (a) (Memorial Museum of Astronautics)

    Full-scale model of the Venera 1 in the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics

  • Mars-Venera station liquid-based engine (2004)

    Venera station liquid based engine.

  • Cut-away model of a Soviet communications satellite

    Model of a Venera lander

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Programa Venera para niños

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