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As the world looks at Mars, an American scientist has produced the best images ever obtained from the surface of a rather different planet - Venus.
The second planet from the Sun is blanketed with a thick layer of cloud.
Computer researcher Don Mitchell used original digital data from two Soviet Venera probes that landed in 1975.
His reprocessed and recalibrated images provide a much clearer view of the Venusian surface which is hotter even than the inside of a household oven. Between 1975 and 1981 Soviet probes landed on Venus 10 times.
The second planet from the Sun is blanketed with a thick layer of cloud.
Computer researcher Don Mitchell used original digital data from two Soviet Venera probes that landed in 1975.
His reprocessed and recalibrated images provide a much clearer view of the Venusian surface which is hotter even than the inside of a household oven. Between 1975 and 1981 Soviet probes landed on Venus 10 times.
Image of a venera lander: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/image/spacecraf..._lander_iki.gif
More Images of Venus surface (origional, 1970's images, mostly B+W):
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/thumbnai...thumbnails.html
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