Venera

A Google live map showing traffic congestion around the harbour area owing to works in the Sta Venera tunnels.

Nationalist MP Mark Anthony Sammut uploaded this Facebook post comparing the situation in Sta Venera with Utrecht in the Netherlands, where a much greener bus shelter cost €12,000, paid for by the bus operator.

Pace, a 44-year-old car dealer, was stopped by a police officer in Santa Venera because he was on his mobile phone while driving.

A 61-year-old Maltese man from Sta Venera was later also arrested and is being interrogated.

Transport Malta will be resurfacing Triq is-Sebħ which forms part of the Marsa Ħamrun bypass, direction to the tunnels of Santa Venera and direction to Marsa, as from Wednesday evening.

In 1967 Venera 4 became the first probe to enter and directly examine the atmosphere of Venus.

Radio occultation data from Mariner 5 helped to understand the temperature and pressure data returned by the Venera 4 lander, which arrived at Venus shortly before it.

Several lines are missing due to a simultaneous transmission of the scientific data On 18 October 1967, the Soviet Venera 4 successfully entered the atmosphere and deployed science experiments.

Starting in 1975 with the Soviet orbiter Venera 9 some ten successful orbiter missions have been sent to Venus, including later missions which were able to map the surface of Venus using radar to pierce the obscuring atmosphere.

The first interplanetary surface mission to return at least limited surface data from another planet was the 1970 landing of Venera 7 on Venus which returned data to Earth for 23 minutes.

The orbiter bus design was likely somewhat rushed into service and immature, considering that it performed very reliably in the Venera variant after 1975.