Venus 7 Seen By Telescope
(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) MOSCOW, August 19.' Scientists at the Crimean Astrophysical Laboratory .in Simferopol, watched the Venus 7 spacecraft from a distance of 106,000 miles through a telescope with a mirror diameter of nearly nine feet, the Soviet Union news agency, Tass reports. If the pattern of previous Russion space flights to Venus is repeated, Venus 7 should reach the planet, after a 220-mtllion-mile journey, by late December. Four previous flights in the series have already penetrated the dense, carbon dioxide atmosphere to the searing Venusian surface, where temperatures are close to 480 degrees Fahrenheit. But they have either crashlanded or lost contact with earth during parachute descents. j , Venus 7 could become the first automatic station to transmit data from the surface back to earth, though the limited official reports on the mission have not given this as one of its aims.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32381, 21 August 1970, Page 8
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