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The Soviets photograph Venus
In 1975 the Soviet Venera 9 and 10 missions managed to survive the punishing conditions on Venus long enough to return photographs of the rocky world. Sir Patrick talks to Dr Garry Hunt about the probes and the images they returned.
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