Cosmos 482

The model of Venera-4 at the Cosmonautics Memorial Museum resembles a landing capsule re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. Photo: ESA

The Cosmos 482 spacecraft crashed in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia.

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The spacecraft was designed to survive the dense atmosphere of Venus, so there was concern that it would burn up in the atmosphere and that if it had landed on land it could have caused severe damage. Fortunately, it landed in the sea.