The World - News from June 16, 1985
A Soviet space module landed on the dark side of Venus and began drilling into soil to determine the composition of the planet. Meanwhile, a balloon-borne probe was drifting 33 miles above the planet’s surface, transmitting data on atmospheric conditions back to Earth, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported. A similar balloon and landing vehicle were released on Venus last week by another Soviet spacecraft. The Venus probe is part of an international mission conducted with participation of the French National Space Agency and has U.S. instruments aboard each craft.
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