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How have astronomers been able to study the face of Venus?

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Since the planet is completely covered by dense clouds the only ways to study its surface has been with spacecraft: landers which pass through the clouds to land on the surface (but due to the high temperature and corrosive sulfuric acid in the air fail rapidly) and orbiters using RADAR to look through the clouds to map the surface. A few early studies of Venus were done using Earth based RADARs, but the results were not very clear due to the distance.

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