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Old January 29th 04, 11:28 PM
Hansel
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Default Any Missions to Venus planned (Landers)?

Am I the only one who would love to see a 360 degree panorama of the surface
of Earth's hellish twin Venus? It's such a fascinating environment.

Any probes planned at any time in the future? I know Venus is much harder to
land on than Mars, and you'd probably only have a working probe for a few
hours at most, but it's a lot closer than Mars at least. Mars has been
photographed from all over now, whilst Venus we only have the Venera images.

I mean the Venera probes did a fantastic job, but their shots of the ground
were just a tantalising glimpse really, with a hint of horizon in the corner
there.Wouldn't it be great to be able to look up and see what this place
looks like if you were standing there!

It just seems like all the probes go to Mars, it would be nice to have one
go to Venus and land, a panorama picture is worth a thousand words or radar
images

Kris
My Energia HLLV page: http://www.k26.com/buran/


 




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