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Ruskies plan to invade Venus

Posted by Andrew on October 8th, 2009

The Russian space research institute IKI has announced ambitious plans to explore the planet Venus. Is this a sign that they’ve forgone Mars because the “Red Planet” is just so cliche now? Or do they know something we don’t?

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