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Apoorv Upreti

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Apoorv Upreti

25 Jun 2020 • 1 min read

Back in 2015 Japan's Akatsuki orbiter managed to get a few fairly close up shots of Venus.

"Venus' nightside glow" by Damia Bouic, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

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