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Venera 15By Marty McDowell/NASA
On June 2, 1983, the Soviet Union launched Venera 15.
Venera 15 was part of a two spacecraft mission (along with Venera
16) designed to use 8 cm band side-looking radar mappers to study the
surface properties of Venus. The two spacecraft were inserted into Venus
orbit a day apart with their orbital planes shifted by an angle of
approximately 4 degrees relative to one another. This made it possible to
reimage an area if necessary. Each spacecraft was in a nearly polar orbit
with a periapsis at 62 N latitude. Together, the two spacecraft imaged the
area from the north pole down to about 30 degrees N latitude over the 8
months of mapping operations.
Source: NASA.
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|  | Launched: June 2, 1983
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| | Destination: Venus
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| | Arrival: October 10, 1983
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| | Return: N/A
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| | Nation: Soviet Union
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| | Mission: Orbit
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