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All Venus Probe Programs

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.

All Venus Probe Programs
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Akatsuki Mission

Robotic Venus Exploration Missions

Magellan

Robotic Venus Exploration Missions

Mariner Program

Robotic Venus Exploration Missions

Vega Program

Robotic Venus Exploration Missions

Venera Program

Robotic Venus Exploration Missions

Venus Express Mission

Robotic Venus Exploration Missions
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wikipedia: Mariner program
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successfully returning data from the planets Venus, Mars and Mercury for the first time
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Wikipedia: Venus Express
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was the first Venus exploration mission of the European Space Agency
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