Japanese Probe That Famously Sent Fictional Pop Star to Venus Is Officially Dead

JAXA had been attempting to restore contact with Akatsuki for a year before terminating the mission.

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Japanese Probe That Famously Sent Fictional Pop Star to Venus Is Officially Dead
A synthesized false color image of Venus using 283-nm and 365-nm images taken by UVI plus 0.90-µm (900-nm) image taken by IR1.

JAXA had been attempting to restore contact with Akatsuki for a year before terminating the mission.
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