Stars And The Solar System

The Pole Star is not visible from the South Pole. It is visible from the Northern Hemisphere and becomes more visible as one moves towards the North Pole.

The first planet in the solar system to be visited by a spacecraft was Venus. The Soviet Union's Venera 1 mission, launched in 1961, was the first attempt to reach Venus, although it lost contact. However, the first successful spacecraft to reach Venus was Venera 7, which landed on Venus in 1970.