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On November 4, 1981, Venera 14 was launched aboard a Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, five days after Venera 13, its identical sister craft. Venera 14 would go on to land on March 5, 1982, returning images and data from the surface of Venus for nearly an hour (which was almost twice as long as the designed lifespan) before succumbing to the temperature. There is conflicting information about what data it returned; the sample arm was reported to have accidentally landed on an ejected camera cover (which is visible in returned photographs), but it has also been reported that Venera 14 took a sample and placed it into a chamber for x-ray spectrographic analysis, which revealed it to be a tholeiitic basalt. Venera 14 determined the temperature to be 465 C, and the pressure to be 94 atm; built essentially like a deep sea submersible to cope with the pressure, the only challenge was heat, and eventually it cooked itself, unable to disperse heat from its computers. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em> -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>