Probe programs and missions that explored Venus, including the Soviet Venera and Vega series, NASA's Magellan radar mapper and Japan's Akatsuki climate orbiter. A mission belongs here when its cited article describes a mission to Venus. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Wikipedia: Venera program
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The Venera program (Russian: Вене́ра, pronounced [vʲɪˈnʲɛrə] 'Venus') was a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus.
Magellan (spacecraft) (Wikipedia)
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Its mission objectives were to map the surface of Venus by using synthetic-aperture radar and to measure the planetary gravitational field.
Akatsuki (spacecraft) (Wikipedia)
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Akatsuki (あかつき, 暁; "Dawn"), also known as the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and Planet-C, was a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) space probe tasked with studying the atmosphere of Venus.
Vega program (Wikipedia)
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The Vega program (Russian: Вега) was a series of Venus missions that also took advantage of the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1986.
Wikipedia: Mariner program
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successfully returning data from the planets Venus, Mars and Mercury for the first time
Wikipedia: Venus Express
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was the first Venus exploration mission of the European Space Agency
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