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Scratching The Surface: Venus Landing

Welcome to Scratching the Surface with Caitlin Ahrens, the Pluto Manager at the University of Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences.  There have been 40 attempted missions by world space agencies to explore Venus.  In this episode, Caitlin tells us about several of these missions and explains why it is so difficult to land on our sister planet.

For more on the Center for Space and Planetary Sciences, visit spacecenter.uark.edu.  Check back each week for a new episode of Scratching The Surface.

Image of Venus landing

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