Report from a torrid planet

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May 1982

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1982s%26t....63..452b&link_type=abstract

Sky and Telescope, vol. 63, May 1982, p. 452, 453.

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Core Sampling, Landing Sites, Satellite-Borne Instruments, Venera Satellites, Venus Surface, Soviet Spacecraft, Venus Probes, Venus, Photographs, Venera 13, Venera 14, Surface, Landing Sites, Landers, Spacecraft, Designs, Mission Description, Equipment, Data, Composition, Comparisons, Atmosphere, Terrain, Topography, Imagery, Samples

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The instrumentation, landing site, and results of a core sample examination made by the Venera 14 Venus lander probe are reported. The aerodynamically-landed vehicle carried a mass spectrometer, gas chromatograph, a nephelometer, a spectrophotometer, an aerosol analyzer, and a lightning discharge detector, all of which operated during atmospheric descent. Touchdown was 900 km SE and 1/2 km lower in elevation than the Venera 13 spacecraft landing site. A sample from 30 mm beneath the surface was taken into the spacecraft and exposed to radiation from Pu-238 and Fe-55 sources to detect fluorescent emissions characteristic to Ca, Mg, and Fe. The data were concluded to indicate that the samples were basalts, similar to those found on terrestrial ocean bottoms.

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