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The first images of the surface of Venus were returned by the Soviet Union's Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft on 22 and 25 October 1975. The two spacecraft sent back black and white images for 53 and 65 minutes respectively before contact with them was lost.

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  Alien volcanoes and ‘Venus-quakes’
 
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View of the volcano Sif Mons on Venus
The volcano, Sif Mons, on Venus shows evidence for past activity in the form of a solidified lava flow that shows up in this image as a brighter streak down the sides of its cone. Planetary scientists would like to know if such eruptions are taking place today. This 3-D view of the surface of Venus was produced in a computer using radar data collected by NASA's Magellan spaceprobe from orbit, in the early 1990s.

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