Phoebe Regio is a
regio on the planet
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is often called Earth's "twin" or "sister" planet for having almost the same size and mass, and the closest orbit to Earth's. While both are rocky planets, Venus has an atmosphere much thicker ...
. It lies to the southeast of
Asteria Regio. It is in diameter and is the principal feature of the
V41 quadrangle, to which it gave its name.
Four Soviet landers,
Venera 11,
Venera 12
The Venera 12 ( meaning Venus 12) was an uncrewed Soviet space mission designed to explore the planet Venus. Venera 12 was launched on 14 September 1978 at 02:25:13 UTC.
After separating from its flight platform on 19 December 1978, the Venera ...
,
Venera 13
Venera 13 ( 'Venus 13') was part of the Soviet space program, Soviet Venera program meant to explore Venus.
Venera 13 and 14 were identical spacecraft built to take advantage of the 1981 Venus launch opportunity. The probes were launched five da ...
and
Venera 14
Venera 14 (called Venus 14 in English) was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus.
Venera 14 was identical to the Venera 13 spacecraft, built to take advantage of the 1981 Venus launch opportunity. Venera 14 was laun ...
, landed on the eastern side of Phoebe Regio and performed various scientific measurements.
References
Surface features of Venus
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