Humanity’s last active mission at Venus is no more. The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) declared its Akatsuki spacecraft dead on Tuesday (Oct. 28), more than a year after the Venus climate probe failed to respond to calls from mission control. “This was a mission that changed our view of our Earth-sized neighbor, and laid the path for new discoveries …
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