{"id":1081,"date":"2025-05-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2025-05-08T21:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T21:43:54","slug":"soviets-were-headed-to-venus-in-1972-the-spacecraft-is-about-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/08\/soviets-were-headed-to-venus-in-1972-the-spacecraft-is-about-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Soviets were headed to Venus in 1972. The spacecraft is about to return."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/soviets-were-headed-to-venus-in-1972-the-spacecraft-is-about_ukvf.640.jpg\">The final chapter for Kosmos 482.<\/p>\n<p>A Cold War-era spacecraft is heading home after a half-century adrift. <\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1970s, the Soviet Union had its sights set on <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/29748\/the-most-spectacular-images-of-venus-ever-captured\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venus<\/a><\/u>, sometimes known as Earth&#8217;s evil twin. A thick atmosphere traps heat in a runaway greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet in the solar \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final chapter for Kosmos 482. A Cold War-era spacecraft is heading home after a half-century adrift. Back in the 1970s, the Soviet Union had its sights set on Venus, sometimes known as Earth&#8217;s evil twin. A thick atmosphere traps heat in a runaway greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet in the solar \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadcubes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}