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These Are The Only Photos Ever Taken Of The Surface Of VenusVolcanic terrain looking like large irregular slabs with a yellowy hueThese Are The Only Photos Ever Taken Of The Surface Of VenusVolcanic terrain looking like large irregular slabs with a yellowy hue

These Are The Only Photos Ever Taken Of The Surface Of Venus

Everything we have comes from a handful of Russian missions in the 1970s and '80s.

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