In 1975 and 1982, four of the Soviet Union’s Venera probes captured our only images of Venus’ surface. Now, NASA's first Venus orbiter in three decades is facing an indefinite delay. If you're a U.S. citizen, sign the petition to #SaveVERITAS ▶️ https://bit.ly/3LVZcux | The Planetary Society

What Venera 13 saw on Venus | COSMOS in a minute #34 #universe #cosmos #cosmosinaminute #venus | The Secrets Of The Universe

On June 12, 1967, Venera 4 was launched into space on a mission to Venus, thus becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's atmosphere. Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/IU4aReO This was a Russian probe designed to study the atmosphere of Venus down to the surface. At first, scientists believed that the probe had transmitted until contact with the surface of Venus. But transmissions had ended at an altitude of 16 miles (or 27 kilometers), when the extreme tem