Instrument Host Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:context:instrument_host:spacecraft.v4::1.0
NAME Venera 4
TYPE Spacecraft
DESCRIPTION The Venera 4 spacecraft comprised a carrier bus holding a descentcraft/lander to study Venus. The carrier bus was designed to be acommunications relay for the lander and to study interplanetary space duringcruise and in the vicinity of Venus. It carried a magnetometer, energeticparticle detectors, cosmic ray detectors, ion traps, and far UV photometerthat covered hydrogen and atomic oxygen. Venera 4 was the first mission totransmit data from the atmosphere of another planet.
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