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[Trivia Question]

Venera missions

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1970-060A

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chronology_venus.html

[Fact Off]

Venus tables & Maya Codex of Mexico

https://www.mesoweb.com/articles/Coe_etal/Fourth_Codex.pdf

https://www.brown.edu/news/2016-09-07/mayacodex

https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/7497-inah-ratifica-al-codice-maya-de-mexico-antes-llamado-grolier-como-el-manuscrito-autentico-mas-antiguo-de-america

https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017062/mayan-moment

Phosphene/ammonia on Venus (and microbial life possibility)

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/938538

https://news.mit.edu/2020/life-venus-phosphine-0914

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-life-clouds.html

https://news.mit.edu/2021/newer-nimbler-faster-mission-venus-search-signs-life-clouds-sulfuric-acid-1210

https://venuscloudlife.com/venus-life-finder-mission-study/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7381915/

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/52/e2110889118

[Ask the Science Couch]

Pictures of the surface of Venus

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/v09_lander_proc.html

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/venera-13/in-depth/

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/sun/parker-solar-probe-captures-its-first-images-of-venus-surface-in-visible-light-confirmed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueMGZTezfY

https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/exploring-the-planets/online/solar-system/venus/magellan.cfm

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3728

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe-instruments

[Butt One More Thing]

Venus cloacina goddess

https://drainfast.co.uk/blog/cloacina-goddess-sewers/

https://books.google.com/books?id=SYqFBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128#v=onepage&q&f=false