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Hell Fire and Brimstone

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On 15 December 1970, the Soviet lander, Venera 7, radioed good news and bad news back to Earth. The good news was that it had landed softly enough on the surface of Venus to still be intact and talking, the first man-made object to do so from the surface of another planet. The bad news was that, at a temperature of 470°C and an atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than on Earth, it wasn’t going to last long. Indeed, it died 23 minutes after touching down.

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  1. The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA

    Professor Louis Neal Irwin

  2. Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA

    Professor Dirk Schulze-Makuch

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Irwin, L.N., Schulze-Makuch, D. (2011). Hell Fire and Brimstone. In: Cosmic Biology. Springer Praxis Books(). Praxis, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1647-1_6

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