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Originally Posted by multiweb
True. They still managed to land on Venus and broadcast for like 30s and in color back in the days.
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Not to mention Luna 10:
"Luna 10 conducted extensive research in lunar orbit, gathering important data on the strength of the Moon’s magnetic field, its radiation belts, and the nature of lunar rocks (which were found to be comparable to terrestrial basalt rocks), cosmic radiation, and micrometeoroid density. Perhaps its most important finding was the first evidence of mass concentrations (called “mascons”)—areas of high density below the mare basins that distort lunar orbital trajectories. Their discovery has usually been credited to the American Lunar Orbiter series."
Lunakhod 1 and other probes/missions also spring to mind.