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\"venera13a.jpg\"You think Mars looks desolate? Here’s a blast from the past, photos sent back by Russian Venus landers<\/a> back in the 70s — probes that the atmosphere basically rendered useless in a matter of hours. Cool stuff.<\/p>\n

(via Scott<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You think Mars looks desolate? Here’s a blast from the past, photos sent back by Russian Venus landers back in the 70s — probes that the atmosphere basically rendered useless…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29062,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/probes-probing-probes.html","url_meta":{"origin":5709,"position":0},"title":"Probes probing probes","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 6-Aug-12 10:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"I think it's incredibly awesome that we actually have enough equipment at Mars that one piece can give us a picture of another piece.Reshared post from +NASAThe Eye in the Sky: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter camera snapped this image of the MarsCuriosity Rover and its parachute during landing at Mars.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1340,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/22\/science_once_ag.html","url_meta":{"origin":5709,"position":1},"title":"Science once again screws up SF","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Jan-02 3:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"SciFi never completely recovered from the Mariner probes demonstrating that Mars was a dry, cratered planet, utterly lacking in canals. 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