Soviets on Venus
Simmons, Thomas![Soviets on Venus](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/445/44557682/CHSBZCOP0344557682.jpg)
Soviets on Venus explores a remote jeweled casket. It construes an alien neighbor as it reconceptualizes an underrated scientific breakthrough: the series of unnamed probes piloted to Venus by the USSR between 1961 and the mid-80's. The missions were called the Venera program. These fantastical spacecraft transmitted data, vivid photographs, and poetic energy back to Earth. Some piloted through the morning star's magma-hot, swampy atmosphere a...