Instrument Host Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.v10::1.0
NAME Venera 10
TYPE Spacecraft
DESCRIPTION The Venera 10 spacecraft, like its sister craft Venera 9, comprised twoparts, an orbiter and an attached descent craft/lander to study Venus. Theorbiter was designed to be a communications relay for the lander and toexplore the cloud layers and atmospheric parameters of Venus andinterplanetary space during cruise and Venus orbit. Instrumentation includeda UV photometer, visible photo-polarimeter, IR spectrometer, IR radiometer,camera system, magnetometer, energetic particle detectors, and chargedparticle traps. Venera 10 was the first mission to transmit photos from thesurface of another planet.
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