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Pioneer Venus 2

Pioneer Venus 2 carried a large atmospheric probe and three small probes on a common bus. The five components sampled widely separated regions of Venus's atmosphere during their coordinated arrival.

Pioneer Venus 2
NASA/Paul Hudson · Stored JPEG is a re-encoded derivative of NASA Science's exact Pioneer Venus 2 mission-page asset (1280x1011; decoded composition matches the authoritative NASA rendition with mean absolute pixel difference 1.18 and per-channel correlation of at least 0.998): https://assets.science.nasa.gov/dynamicimage/assets/science/psd/solar/2023/07/pioneervenusmultiprobe.jpg?w=1280&h=1011&fit=clip&crop=faces%2Cfocalpoint. NASA's current mission page identifies this as an artist's illustration of NASA's Pioneer Venus 2 approaching Venus and credits NASA/Paul Hudson: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/pioneer-venus-2/. NASA's image article independently repeats the same scene and credit: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/40-years-ago-pioneer-venus-multiprobe-launched-study-cloud-shrouded-planet-venus/. NASA's current Images and Media Usage Guidelines generally permit NASA content for factual, educational, and informational web use with NASA acknowledgement and without implying NASA endorsement; the named artist credit is preserved, and NASA guidance does not by itself clear any separately identified third-party rights. NASA logos and identifiers, and some commercial, promotional, and merchandise uses, remain subject to separate restrictions: https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-brand-center/images-and-media/. This is an asset-level provenance and conservative reuse statement, not a blanket license. · Source
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Aliases
Pioneer Venus MultiprobePioneer 131978-078A
Name
Pioneer Venus 2
Status
completed

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Description
Pioneer Venus 2 carried a large atmospheric probe and three small probes on a common bus. The five components sampled widely separated regions of Venus's atmosphere during their coordinated arrival.
Destination
Venus atmospheric descent and surface impact by one large probe and three small probes; one probe transmitted from the surface for 67.5 minutes
End Date
1978-12-09
Launch Site
Outcome
Successfully delivered all four probes into the Venusian atmosphere on December 9, 1978; two small probes survived impact briefly and one transmitted from the surface for more than an hour.
Programs
Start Date
1978-08-08
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Official Url
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/pioneer-venus-2/

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July 18, 2026 at 12:32:49 UTC
Updated Time
August 21, 2026 at 13:13:41 UTC
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Pioneer Venus 2 Pioneer Venus Multiprobe Pioneer 13 1978-078A
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