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On This Day In Space: March 5, 1982: Soviet Venera 14 probe lands on Venus

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On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Union’s Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus! 

Venera 14 launched just five days after its identical twin, Venera 13. Both space probes spent four months traveling to Venus, and Venera 13 arrived a few days earlier. 

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This is an image of Venus from Soviet Venera program probe Venera 14 taken in 1982. The Cyrillic text below the pictures reads: “Venera 14 brabotka IPPI AN SSSR TsDKS,”short for “Venera 14, Processing, Institute for Problems in Transmitting Information, Academy of Sciences, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Centre for Long-Distance Space Communications.” (Image credit: UCL Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences )

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Venera 14 parachuted down to the surface of Venus and collected data on the atmosphere the whole way down. It landed about 600 miles away from Venera 13 and started beaming back images from the surface of Venus — but not for long. 

The high pressure and temperature at Venus killed Venera 14 in under an hour. 

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