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Venera 9 lands on Venus

After a series of Venera missions, the Russians built Venera 9, a craft capable of withstanding Venus's searing temperatures and crushing pressures long enough to send back a picture of the surface. Venera 9's 1975 photograph of Venus showed a surface strewn with volcanic rocks.

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