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A problem of determining attainable landing sites on the surface of Venus is an essential part of the Venera-D project aimed to explore the planet using a lander. This problem appears due to the ...

Venus is one of the most hostile environments in the solar system, with temperatures hot enough to melt lead and atmospheric pressure strong enough to crush most spacecraft instantly. Yet during the ...

After the USSR launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, the space race quickly gained momentum. A decade later, the first space probe that entered the atmosphere of another planet while still operational did so ...

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