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    The Pioneer Venus Orbiter, also known as Pioneer Venus 1 or Pioneer 12, was a mission to Venus conducted by NASA as part of the Pioneer Venus project...
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    The Pioneer Venus project was part of the Pioneer program consisting of two spacecraft, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, launched...
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    Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, also known as Pioneer Venus 2 or Pioneer 13, was a spacecraft launched in 1978 to explore Venus as part of NASA's Pioneer program...
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    List of missions to the outer planets "Pioneer Venus Project Information". Retrieved 30 December 2023. "Pioneer Venus 2". Retrieved 30 December 2023. The...
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    Orbiter (Pioneer Venus 1, Pioneer 12) – launched May 1978 Pioneer Venus Multiprobe (Pioneer Venus 2, Pioneer 13) – launched August 1978 Pioneer Venus Probe...
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    two Pioneer spacecraft to Venus. The Pioneer mission consisted of two components, launched separately: an orbiter and a multiprobe. The Pioneer Venus Multiprobe...
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    The possibility of life on Venus is a subject of interest in astrobiology due to Venus' proximity and similarities to Earth. To date, no definitive evidence...
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    Maxwell Montes (category Mountains on Venus)
    extensive highland on Venus that came to be called Maxwell Montes in 1967. In 1978, the space probe Pioneer Venus 1 went into orbit around Venus for the purpose...
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    with the Pioneer Venus project, consisting of two separate missions: the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe and Pioneer Venus Orbiter, orbiting Venus between 1978...
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    used to investigate interplanetary space between the orbits of Earth and Venus. It was launched on 11 March 1960 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station...
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    The atmosphere of Venus is the very dense layer of gases surrounding the planet Venus. Venus's atmosphere is composed of 96.5% carbon dioxide and 3.5%...
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    Space Race (section Venus)
    of the time. The Space Race brought pioneering launches of artificial satellites, robotic landers to the Moon, Venus, and Mars, and human spaceflight in...
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    "Pioneer Venus Orbiter". nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 10 February 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2019. "In Depth | Pioneer Venus 1"....
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    The planet Venus has been used as a setting in fiction since before the 19th century. Its opaque cloud cover gave science fiction writers free rein to...
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    terraforming of Venus or the terraformation of Venus is the hypothetical process of engineering the global environment of the planet Venus in order to make...
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    harboring life forms. The surface of Venus is comparatively flat. When 93% of the topography was mapped by Pioneer Venus Orbiter, scientists found that the...
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    a descent probe planned for 2031 Pioneer Venus Multiprobe Venera, a series of Soviet probes and landers Life on Venus EscaPADE, an interplanetary mission...
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    spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth, ahead of the Pioneer Venus Orbiter (served 14 years) and the Mars Express (serving over 20 years)...
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    The phases of Venus are the variations of lighting seen on the planet's surface, similar to lunar phases. The first recorded observations of them are...
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    Venus, as one of the brightest objects in the sky, has been known since prehistoric times and has been a major fixture in human culture for as long as...
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    Venus Ebony Starr Williams (born June 17, 1980) is an American inactive professional tennis player. A former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles, Williams...
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  • "In Depth | Pioneer 5 – Solar System Exploration: NASA Science". Solar System Exploration: NASA Science. Retrieved 2018-10-14. "Ranger 1". www.jpl.nasa...
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    Running History. "Venus Probe Returning Data". The Los Angeles Times. AP. May 22, 1978. p. I-25. "Pioneer Venus Orbiter/Pioneer Venus 1/Pioneer 12". Solar System...
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    A transit of Venus was observed from Earth on 8 June 2004. The event received significant attention, since it was the first Venus transit after the invention...
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    The colonization of Venus has been a subject of many works of science fiction since before the dawn of spaceflight, and is still discussed from both a...
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    American composer Pioneer 12, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter, launched from the U.S. on May 20, 1978, entered an ellipical orbit around Venus. It would transmit...
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    including the essay "A Moment of Perception" by James W. Christy. "Pioneer Venus 1". Solar System Exploration. NASA. Archived from the original on 4 October...
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  • Zond program Zond 1 Pioneer Venus project Vega program Vega 1 Vega 2 Galileo spacecraft Magellan spacecraft Cassini–Huygens Venus Express MESSENGER Akatsuki...
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    A transit of Venus takes place when Venus passes directly between the Sun and the Earth (or any other superior planet), becoming visible against (and hence...
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    VE68) is a sub-kilometer sized asteroid and temporary quasi-satellite of Venus. Discovered in 2002, it was the first such object to be discovered around...
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