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On 5 March 1982, Russia’s Venera 14 lander reached the surface of Venus, ejected the protective cap from its camera lens, photographed the surrounding terrain — and then lowered its mechanical soil-testing arm directly onto the discarded lens cap,…
The story is true, and the photographs are sitting in NASA’s archive to prove it. On 5 March 1982, a Soviet lander called Venera 14 finished a four-month flight, fell through a cloud deck of sulfuric acid, and settled onto a plain of flat basalt... Read more.
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