Wednesday, October 18, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Russians land a Venus package
MOSCOW —(UPI)— An unmanned Soviet space package planted the hammer and sickle national emblem on Venus today and radioed back that the planet was shrouded in gas and too hot for human life.
The Tass news agency said the planet probe made a soft parachute landing on the planet almost 50 million miles away and sent back coded word that it was layered in carbon dioxide and had temperatures as high as 536 degrees Fahrenheit. There was no magnetic field or radiation belt around it.
The instruments did not relay photographs, officials said.
Tass said the instrument package deposited a metal pennant with the coat of arms of the Soviet Union—presumably a metal that could withstand the heat. Russia's first moon probe carried a similar pennant.
The capsule named Venus 4 detached itself on command from earth from its carrier rocket and plopped down softly on the hot
surface at 7:45 a.m., 12:34 a.m.
EDT, the Tass news agency reported. Western nations also reported the landing.
Britain's Jodrell Bank Observatory said the capsule relayed to earth 96 minutes of coded radio information about the fog-shrouded planet.
The Russians scored a smashing space success as an American planet probe, Mariner 5, neared Venus on a course that would take it several thousand miles past the surface of the planet on Thursday.
Signals from the Soviet Venus 4 instrument package were being received by Russian monitors and, on invitation, by Jodrell Bank's huge dish-shaped antenna in England.
Jodrell Bank Director Sir Bernard Lovell said data from the capsule was "of inconceivable value."
A hot planet
The surface of Venus, shrouded by a layer of gases that holds in See Venus, page 9
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