{"id":27498,"date":"2026-10-13T00:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T04:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27498"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:16:14","slug":"magellan-plunged-into-venuss-surface-in-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27498","title":{"rendered":"Magellan Plunged into Venus&#8217;s Surface in 1994"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27502\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27502\" class=\"wp-image-27502 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Magellan-Spacecraft-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Magellan fixed in Atlantis<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Magellan plunged into Venus&#8217;s surface in 1994.<\/strong> Atlantis, an American shuttle spacecraft, was launched on May 4, 1989. It successfully deployed Magellan, which traveled to Venus to map the planet\u2019s surface. Magellan encountered Venus on August 10, 1990, and began taking high-quality radar images on September 15, 1990. It continued to photograph the planet\u2019s surface, making six complete mapping cycles. Magellan mapped about 98 percent of Venus&#8217;s surface. It was commanded to plunge into Venus&#8217;s surface, still sending data, on October 13, 1994. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/missions\/magellan\/in-depth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magellan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magellan plunged into Venus&#8217;s surface in 1994. Atlantis, an American shuttle spacecraft, was launched on May 4, 1989. It successfully deployed Magellan, which traveled to Venus to map the planet\u2019s surface. Magellan encountered Venus on August 10, 1990, and began taking high-quality radar images on September 15, 1990. It continued to photograph the planet\u2019s surface, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27498' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27498"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29788,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27498\/revisions\/29788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}