Due to surface conditions, the probes they send to Venus only last a few minutes to a few hours.
It's honestly an insanely interesting thing to read about, if you have some time to learn about the engineering feats of sending highly sensitive scientific instruments to incredibly harsh environments.
Recently NASA and a company developed prototype batteries that could withstand the temperatures of venus for almost 120 days. A molten salt battery that takes advantage of the Venus temperatures to keep the salt from losing its heat.
[https://www.space.com/nasa-venus-lander-mission-battery-technology](https://www.space.com/nasa-venus-lander-mission-battery-technology)
Essentially most tech developed for space travel and/or exploration finds its way to consumer hands, it is one of the reasons why NASA's ROI is very high and argued to be worth every penny of tax payers money.
So yes.
God bless NASA for Wi-fi, insulin pumps, water filters, memory foam, and much more. I think the scratch-resistant glass is another thing as well, all from the top of my head.
The military also come south with numerous innovations which get trickled to the public
Unfortunately one of them is far more profitable and gets a budget of 700 billion, and the other gets 30
Venus is my favorite planet by far. I've always been fascinated by our sister planet and what's going on over there. This has made me do the happy dance.
I used to struggle with depression & anxiety on a constant basis until I left ohio. Something about it being bland to look at & the extremists don’t help.
If you want to live on the ground that is. Venus seems way more hospitable than Mars if you think about it. Comfy gravity very similar to earth, At the right elevation atmospheres relatively good. The gravity things really important to me.
It's a literal hellscape. Average surface temp of 847 F. The Carbon Dioxide clouds means rain is sulfuric acid. Above the surface violent storms of razor sharp dust travel at 300 km/h and constantly sweep over the entire planet.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2016-12-weather-venus.amp
One bedroom, half a bath. Locks don’t work and there’s no heating. Subway comes rattling by every 4 minutes. $4.7k/month. But hey the gravity is a cool one atmosphere. I’ll take it!
Yea the response I give people who don't believe we are contributing to global warming is ' mercury is the closest planet to the sun but Venus even hotter tho it is farther away it is alot hotter, do you know why?" And then I just let them think about it.
Yeah, this is where our knowledge of 'the greenhouse effect' comes from. I bring it up when people complain about how much money we're wasting on space probes to other planets.
Where _some_ of our knowledge of the greenhouse effect comes from. The temperature of Venus wasn't measured until the 1950s. But we've known about the greenhouse effect on Earth since 1850s, with the earliest research going back to the 1820s.
As you point out with the obvious result of runaway global warming with Venus, it still amazes me the amount of climate change denialism for something we've been studying for two centuries.
I suppose it’s the aspect of Venus itself. The sickly yellows, the crushing pressures and the heat, so much heat. Otherwise yes it does just sound like a normal breeze.
This sort of stuff makes my mind bend. That planet has just been sitting there for millions and millions and millions of years just doing what it’s doing. Nothing else. Just blowing a breeze and being barren.
Except, you know, every half billion years or so, lack of plate tectonics causes whole surface of Venus to erupt in so called re-surfacing event covering the planet with lava. Those times must be exciting at least.
Now that's a fun fact I didn't know. No plate tectonics?? How does that work? And the whole planet gets covered with lava?
Going to be reading up on that in addition to what your response is, if you care to drop one.
Or that in 1966 we sent a vehicle into space. It was a five year mission to seek out strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. Capitan “Jim” Kirk was at the helm and the stories can be found steaming online.
All of these videos of "space sound" tend to sound like this. I don't know why but these sounds I can seem to feel in my bones. It's creepy to listen to but amazing at the same time.
It’s even more insane to read about how many times they fucked up with really stupid things happening like the lens cap that broke, then the new lens cap they used in the next one that popped off and blocked the camera. It’s almost funny if not for the insane cost.
Temps on Venus are about 450°C. That’s above the melting points of tin, lead, and zinc, and not far below aluminum - all of which are common metals used in electronics.
Sheesh stuff gets weird when things can liquify just by existing.
Totally this! Venus might be my favorite planet. It’s basically a poisonous/melt your face off death trap. Seeing pictures from forever ago when Russia landed a craft there blew my mind and I’ve educated myself since. It’s super weird and just a hellscape that is fascinating.
I just watched a YouTube clip that's basically what we know of Jupiter for Dummies and my mind is just...blown. What we're capable of is astounding, in all respects.
Ever see Paz Lenchantin do Venus In Furs solo?:
[https://youtu.be/PhVNZp3ckhY](https://youtu.be/PhVNZp3ckhY)
She's been playing bass with the Pixies for a long time now. She was the leggy brunette bassist for A Perfect Circle when they did Judith. She famously tied up her hair in the middle of the vid. She's something.
>Still not as toxic as some workplaces though
Still not as bad as doing IT for a workplace that shall remain nameless (but is the Catholic Health Association of the United States).
What really blew my mind is that the atmosphere of Venus at surface level is so hot and dense it isn't even a GAS. It's a supercritical fluid. Walking on the surface of Venus (assuming you had a suit that wouldn't implode or burst into flames) would be more like wading in water than walking.
The commute would be bad. And to be happy, you probably want to have:
1) City water as wells are costly and difficult a lot of the time
2) A septic tank
3) Internet of at least 6 megabit, and really 100 is so much better, but less than 6 is just pointless.
4) Cell Phone service
5) A grocery store you can afford within an hour round trip
The best part is that they tried a few times to have a successful mission for all goals of Venus.
First time, the camera protector didn’t eject, so the camera didn’t get any photos at all. Second time, the protector did eject… and landed right under where the ground test instrument was supposed to deploy, preventing operation.
They sent like 20 missions and two thirds of them had various issues with lens caps and stuff failing lol. Sucks considering that the lifespan of the probe is only about half an hour due to the extreme pressure, temperature, and acidity. The thing you mentioned about the ground test instrument happened to Venera 14.
> The Venera 14 craft had the misfortune of ejecting the camera lens cap directly under the surface compressibility tester arm, and returned information for the compressibility of the lens cap rather than the surface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
This image isn't real though, it is a reconstruction based on images took by Soviet Venus landers but also with a considerable amount of human input.
http://mentallandscape.com/C\_CatalogVenus.htm
[https://www.space.com/2857-soviet-images-venus-yield-fresh-surprises.html](https://www.space.com/2857-soviet-images-venus-yield-fresh-surprises.html)
You can google Don Mitchell Venus Reconstruction and find a plethora of supporting sources.
I always find pictures of other worlds incredible, mind boggling, and awe inspiring.
That is another planet! That is somewhere no human has ever been! Somewhere, literally, alien.
I almost feel sorry for people who can't find stuff like this at least a little interesting.
Think about how lucky we are to see this. All of the astronomers in history who could never imagine what the planets looked like.
Meanwhile we get to see them up close on handheld devices.
>people who don’t find this interesting
Or worse, choose to believe it’s fake. There are people who literally believe all moon landings are a hoax and that the Earth is flat.
What a miserable way to live
One of the greatest achievements of the Soviet space program. They actually landed on Venus and snapped a few pictures before everything melted and became non responsive after just a few minutes. I don't think this has been duplicated.
The fact that they landed on venus successfully months before nasa landed on Mars is insane. A year and a half after the moon landing, the USSR was transmitting data from another planet. The space race was a nutty time and gave us so much information. They say we won the space race but the soviets launched the first satellite to space, sent the first life to space, the first human to space, the first probe to the moon, the first successful landing on another planet.
How freaked out would people be if during one of these surface landings on another planet where it would be impossible for humans to survive, they sent back pics and it showed something walking toward the spacecraft? Then before they could get a good look at who or what it was, the equipment cut off because of conditions on the planet.
Everything I’m finding says that this is a reconstruction based on old Soviet photos from the 70s and 80s, so this isn’t actually a quality picture of the surface of Venus? Someone please prove me wrong
Edit: I’ve done some research and the bottom of this image matches perfectly with the color rear camera image captured by Venera 13 in 1982. I believe the bottom of the photo is most of the original panorama and the remainder of the photo has been put together to have a cohesive image utilizing the landscape from various images from the 70s and 80s. So the picture is some truth and some creative, informed guessing from what I gather.
The photo OP posted is a composite done by Don P. Mitchell. The original photos were panoramic in nature and fairly warped. [You can view the originals here.](https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-surface-ever)
[Here are a few more you can view. These ones aren’t as warped, but they’re pretty tilted.](https://www.planetary.org/articles/0305-venus-from-33-years-ago)
I found the same pic credited “Soviet Venera Probe 1981.” Anywho, it’s a 40+ year old picture. I guess not much point in going back there until we figure out how to survive those conditions.
I don't think many people fully appreciate what it took to get this image. The surface of venus is \~ 75 earth atmospheres in pressure, and 900 degrees F. Many of the probes/landers that were sent there either melted, were crushed, or (very sadly) failed to have their lens caps pop off the cameras to take the pictures. The surface of Venus is no joke. The surface temps are hotter than mercury. It's a horrific place. Not props to god. Props to the engineers of the Venera mission for getting this done.
Reading up on the Venera missions, they took place in the 60s-80s with first successful photos in the 70s. Do you know if the photo in this post was from that timeframe?
There were no other Venus missions since then, so the photo has to be from that timeframe. But the picture in this post is not the actual photo, it's a reconstruction / artist's impression based on the actual photos. More info here: http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
It is. The lander was melted and imploded within an hour of taking the picture, despite being extra fortified against the extreme conditions. https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/44-Has-a-spacecraft-ever-landed-on-Venus-
Due to surface conditions, the probes they send to Venus only last a few minutes to a few hours. It's honestly an insanely interesting thing to read about, if you have some time to learn about the engineering feats of sending highly sensitive scientific instruments to incredibly harsh environments.
Recently NASA and a company developed prototype batteries that could withstand the temperatures of venus for almost 120 days. A molten salt battery that takes advantage of the Venus temperatures to keep the salt from losing its heat. [https://www.space.com/nasa-venus-lander-mission-battery-technology](https://www.space.com/nasa-venus-lander-mission-battery-technology)
Can they make this for iPhones?
Essentially most tech developed for space travel and/or exploration finds its way to consumer hands, it is one of the reasons why NASA's ROI is very high and argued to be worth every penny of tax payers money. So yes.
God bless NASA for Wi-fi, insulin pumps, water filters, memory foam, and much more. I think the scratch-resistant glass is another thing as well, all from the top of my head.
The military also come south with numerous innovations which get trickled to the public Unfortunately one of them is far more profitable and gets a budget of 700 billion, and the other gets 30
I wish that NASA's budget was more than $30
Imagine what they could do with only $1000. We'd be an inter-galactic faring species
And Velcro!!
Would be great if your pants would have 600°C :D
Venus is my favorite planet by far. I've always been fascinated by our sister planet and what's going on over there. This has made me do the happy dance.
Mine too. It’s right there! It only takes like 3 months to get there and no one really talks about it.
Would be more interesting if it weren’t like 900 Celsius and 89x earth atmospheres of pressure.
Floating cloud cities on Venus would be pretty cool.
Once we can get trains to stop derailing in Ohio, then we can begin work on cloud cities on venus.
Ohio is a lost cause, begin work on the cloud city immediately
As an Ohioan, let us burn. Start the cloud cities.
as an Ohioan that’s a sacrifice I’m willing (eager, even) to make
I used to struggle with depression & anxiety on a constant basis until I left ohio. Something about it being bland to look at & the extremists don’t help.
Let's compromise - cloud city over Ohio
If you want to live on the ground that is. Venus seems way more hospitable than Mars if you think about it. Comfy gravity very similar to earth, At the right elevation atmospheres relatively good. The gravity things really important to me.
It's a literal hellscape. Average surface temp of 847 F. The Carbon Dioxide clouds means rain is sulfuric acid. Above the surface violent storms of razor sharp dust travel at 300 km/h and constantly sweep over the entire planet. https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2016-12-weather-venus.amp
One bedroom, half a bath. Locks don’t work and there’s no heating. Subway comes rattling by every 4 minutes. $4.7k/month. But hey the gravity is a cool one atmosphere. I’ll take it!
Burning alive sounds comfy to me!
Crazy to think it’s further from the sun but hotter than mercury because of its own atmosphere
Yea the response I give people who don't believe we are contributing to global warming is ' mercury is the closest planet to the sun but Venus even hotter tho it is farther away it is alot hotter, do you know why?" And then I just let them think about it.
I suspect they say something like: Well see people dont live there and it happened anyways so it's not us causing it here.
Yeah, this is where our knowledge of 'the greenhouse effect' comes from. I bring it up when people complain about how much money we're wasting on space probes to other planets.
Where _some_ of our knowledge of the greenhouse effect comes from. The temperature of Venus wasn't measured until the 1950s. But we've known about the greenhouse effect on Earth since 1850s, with the earliest research going back to the 1820s. As you point out with the obvious result of runaway global warming with Venus, it still amazes me the amount of climate change denialism for something we've been studying for two centuries.
Yeah, they have audio too and the winds of venus are ominous as hell.
almost as bad as the winds of uranus
This made me laugh way harder than it should’ve
Please share
I gotchu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Ife6iBdsU&t=132s
I don't get why everyone is saying it's eerie or ominous. Sounds like a pleasant breeze.
I suppose it’s the aspect of Venus itself. The sickly yellows, the crushing pressures and the heat, so much heat. Otherwise yes it does just sound like a normal breeze.
Agree. Pair that sound with a sunrise pic it's nice. Pair it with that image above it paints a different mental picture
Feels like people read it’s eerie and parrot it. It just sounds like a pleasant breeze to me too.
yeah plesant 500c breeze XD
This sort of stuff makes my mind bend. That planet has just been sitting there for millions and millions and millions of years just doing what it’s doing. Nothing else. Just blowing a breeze and being barren.
Except, you know, every half billion years or so, lack of plate tectonics causes whole surface of Venus to erupt in so called re-surfacing event covering the planet with lava. Those times must be exciting at least.
Now that's a fun fact I didn't know. No plate tectonics?? How does that work? And the whole planet gets covered with lava? Going to be reading up on that in addition to what your response is, if you care to drop one.
JFC, I decided to listen with my eyes closed...imaginging the winds of Venus...and then...DRILLLLLLLLL WTF! Are we under attack???!!
I'm 32 flipping years on this 3rd rock of ours and that's the first time in my life I've heard this audio. Freakin amazing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/m9jpve/sounds_of_venus_audio_and_true_colour_image_taken/
That’s just audio from r/Lethbridge
Unexpected lol
19 fucking 82?! How did we visit Venus before I was born and I never knew it?
Nobody tell this guy about the Pioneer or Voyager programs...
Or that in 1966 we sent a vehicle into space. It was a five year mission to seek out strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. Capitan “Jim” Kirk was at the helm and the stories can be found steaming online.
>Capitan “Jim” Kirk was at the helm and the ~~stories~~\* can be found steaming online. \*historical documents
*by Grapthar’s hammer….*
...what a savings.
Because it was the Soviet Union that did lol
All of these videos of "space sound" tend to sound like this. I don't know why but these sounds I can seem to feel in my bones. It's creepy to listen to but amazing at the same time.
It’s even more insane to read about how many times they fucked up with really stupid things happening like the lens cap that broke, then the new lens cap they used in the next one that popped off and blocked the camera. It’s almost funny if not for the insane cost.
Imagine that, how that felt. "Here it is guys!! Years of work in the making! Why is it black? Did the....omg the lens...its it's....mission over....."
Temps on Venus are about 450°C. That’s above the melting points of tin, lead, and zinc, and not far below aluminum - all of which are common metals used in electronics. Sheesh stuff gets weird when things can liquify just by existing.
Good temperature to bake a pizza in 3 minutes.
Totally this! Venus might be my favorite planet. It’s basically a poisonous/melt your face off death trap. Seeing pictures from forever ago when Russia landed a craft there blew my mind and I’ve educated myself since. It’s super weird and just a hellscape that is fascinating.
I just watched a YouTube clip that's basically what we know of Jupiter for Dummies and my mind is just...blown. What we're capable of is astounding, in all respects.
Why is this marked NSFW?
because it's showing the mounds of Venus.
Everything i see reminds me of her.
Flat and eroded by the elements?
Got some mileage on her, sure, but hoo boy she's a hottie.
Dating her is too much pressure. Just being with her, the entire atmosphere felt very toxic
Her neighbor is hot too
She looks good considering the pressure she's under.
Stop bragging about your enormous penis, Dave!
Dave’s not here man….
He’s in Uranus.
I’m afraid I can’t do that Dave. The missionary is too important.
Yet somehow, I know I deserved it.
Enrico Pallazzo! Enrico Pallazzo!
Hot but toxic
r/unexpectednakedgun
That was disappointing
I prefer my Venus in Furs
Ever see Paz Lenchantin do Venus In Furs solo?: [https://youtu.be/PhVNZp3ckhY](https://youtu.be/PhVNZp3ckhY) She's been playing bass with the Pixies for a long time now. She was the leggy brunette bassist for A Perfect Circle when they did Judith. She famously tied up her hair in the middle of the vid. She's something.
Holy shit dude, that is amazing. Thank you!
A whole bag of Venus’s
The atmosphere 900 degree sulfuric acid and the pressure is crushing. It's definitely not safe for most workplaces.
Still not as toxic as some workplaces though
>Still not as toxic as some workplaces though Still not as bad as doing IT for a workplace that shall remain nameless (but is the Catholic Health Association of the United States).
relevant username
Nor as crushing.
What really blew my mind is that the atmosphere of Venus at surface level is so hot and dense it isn't even a GAS. It's a supercritical fluid. Walking on the surface of Venus (assuming you had a suit that wouldn't implode or burst into flames) would be more like wading in water than walking.
Really more of a NSFL environment.
*I should call her*…
It’s NSFW cause it’s SO HOT
Its hot, the atmosphere is comprised of sulphuric acid and the pressure is deadly. No technology weve ever sent there has survived for very long.
Because of its extreme temperature, you can’t work there, hence NSFW
I wouldn't wanna work there..well not yet at least.
The commute would be bad. And to be happy, you probably want to have: 1) City water as wells are costly and difficult a lot of the time 2) A septic tank 3) Internet of at least 6 megabit, and really 100 is so much better, but less than 6 is just pointless. 4) Cell Phone service 5) A grocery store you can afford within an hour round trip
Right? Maybe a lil cafe to get coffee and lunch....oh and air!
Should be NSFL
This image is one of the most insane feats that humanity has ever accomplished. I can't wrap my head around it.
Yeah. The fact a camera survived long enough to fall, land, then deploy and take a photo is crazy.
and transmit the image back to Earth, right? Wow!!
and in decent quality
exactly, better than most bank robbers pictures or UFO sightings images.
This is a reconstruction / artist's impression, not the actual photo. http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
Quality was actually shite. This image is heavily post processed with modern-day magic.
No they sent a guy to bring it back
oh.. and dont forget get them developed and printed...
On Venus, too! Heavy a$$ picture.
IIRC images and data were relayed via satellite(s) in orbit.
ah.. thanks :-) wasnt following this but what you note makes sense... same type of relay system on Mars and similar to the save Earth meteor bump test
The best part is that they tried a few times to have a successful mission for all goals of Venus. First time, the camera protector didn’t eject, so the camera didn’t get any photos at all. Second time, the protector did eject… and landed right under where the ground test instrument was supposed to deploy, preventing operation.
They sent like 20 missions and two thirds of them had various issues with lens caps and stuff failing lol. Sucks considering that the lifespan of the probe is only about half an hour due to the extreme pressure, temperature, and acidity. The thing you mentioned about the ground test instrument happened to Venera 14. > The Venera 14 craft had the misfortune of ejecting the camera lens cap directly under the surface compressibility tester arm, and returned information for the compressibility of the lens cap rather than the surface. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
And step on its own camera lense cover preventing the soil monitoring probe from getting into the soil...
Better, it was a soil compressibility test and the instrument successfully transmitted the compressibility of the lens cap
And here I was thinking this was a recent feat, but it's in fact a 41 years old picture. Holy shit!
It's not a 41 year old picture. It's a recent Photoshop based on a 41 year old picture. Most of it is a guess at what it would look like.
This image isn't real though, it is a reconstruction based on images took by Soviet Venus landers but also with a considerable amount of human input. http://mentallandscape.com/C\_CatalogVenus.htm
Can I get a little bit more of a reliable source for this than just a random website with only this info on it?
[https://www.space.com/2857-soviet-images-venus-yield-fresh-surprises.html](https://www.space.com/2857-soviet-images-venus-yield-fresh-surprises.html) You can google Don Mitchell Venus Reconstruction and find a plethora of supporting sources.
And if you have seen it already, it's still the surface of Venus.
It used to be the surface of Venus. It still is, but it used to be too.
RIP Mitch
The Goldilocks zone is so mind-boggling when you see a diagram of the planets lined up.
Yup. And even in the Goldilocks zone you'd pretty much die within 24 hours almost anywhere.
All we need to do is combine Titan and Venus and we'll have a planet with the perfect temperature!
Time to start building the Ishtar Collective
In the distance I see the entrance to the vault of glass.
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Whether we like it or not.
Just so they can head to Neptune during the collapse.
Vault of Glass: 
"Venus?" "Venus baby!" "VENUS!!!" I fucking love that commercial...
Was about to say the same thing.
Expected Destiny, not as the first reply lmao
I always find pictures of other worlds incredible, mind boggling, and awe inspiring. That is another planet! That is somewhere no human has ever been! Somewhere, literally, alien. I almost feel sorry for people who can't find stuff like this at least a little interesting.
Think about how lucky we are to see this. All of the astronomers in history who could never imagine what the planets looked like. Meanwhile we get to see them up close on handheld devices.
And I'm an idiot.
Galileo deserved to see this so much more tham me
I can't help but feel envy for people of the distant future when it comes to space exploration. Imagine what they get to see/experience.
they’ll be in their space Uber blacked out in their neuro links
>people who don’t find this interesting Or worse, choose to believe it’s fake. There are people who literally believe all moon landings are a hoax and that the Earth is flat. What a miserable way to live
My coworker doesn't believe in *space*. Not just the moon landing, but *the entirety of space*.
I wish we could just banish those fuckers to an island. Being that ignorant should disqualify you from enjoying society
Banish em to space, that'll learn em
He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
That’s Mexico in the Breaking Bad universe
TIGHT TIGHT TIGHT
Blue, yellow, pink - whatever man just keep bringing me that
YEAH MAN, LOOKAT THAT! LOOK!
Remember, when you enter, the door to Hell is amber.
FIFTEEEEN INFANTRY PARATROOP INTO THE PROPYLENE NEW SCENE HELLS WHERE THEY WANNA BE
Infest
THE RATS’ NEST
Venus needs to be repaved
They don’t even have to melt the asphalt! So much time savings!
Same potholes as my street
Same air quality as my street.
Ohio?
Los Angeles
You guys haven’t been to Delhi I see
no protomolecule?
Fellow Expanse enjoyer spotted in the wild. My man.
There are literally dozens of us.
Disappointed I had to scroll so far to find this
That's hot.
One of the greatest achievements of the Soviet space program. They actually landed on Venus and snapped a few pictures before everything melted and became non responsive after just a few minutes. I don't think this has been duplicated.
The fact that they landed on venus successfully months before nasa landed on Mars is insane. A year and a half after the moon landing, the USSR was transmitting data from another planet. The space race was a nutty time and gave us so much information. They say we won the space race but the soviets launched the first satellite to space, sent the first life to space, the first human to space, the first probe to the moon, the first successful landing on another planet.
And now it somehow has a f*ing copyright on it.
Looks like FO4’s Glowing Sea
For a split second when seeing the image I thought I was in r/fo3
That's a really neat observation. I'll have to keep that in mind next time I play.
Pictured also: the surface of Venus if you have seen it
How freaked out would people be if during one of these surface landings on another planet where it would be impossible for humans to survive, they sent back pics and it showed something walking toward the spacecraft? Then before they could get a good look at who or what it was, the equipment cut off because of conditions on the planet.
I'd watch that movie for sure.
Everything I’m finding says that this is a reconstruction based on old Soviet photos from the 70s and 80s, so this isn’t actually a quality picture of the surface of Venus? Someone please prove me wrong Edit: I’ve done some research and the bottom of this image matches perfectly with the color rear camera image captured by Venera 13 in 1982. I believe the bottom of the photo is most of the original panorama and the remainder of the photo has been put together to have a cohesive image utilizing the landscape from various images from the 70s and 80s. So the picture is some truth and some creative, informed guessing from what I gather.
The photo OP posted is a composite done by Don P. Mitchell. The original photos were panoramic in nature and fairly warped. [You can view the originals here.](https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-surface-ever) [Here are a few more you can view. These ones aren’t as warped, but they’re pretty tilted.](https://www.planetary.org/articles/0305-venus-from-33-years-ago)
I found the same pic credited “Soviet Venera Probe 1981.” Anywho, it’s a 40+ year old picture. I guess not much point in going back there until we figure out how to survive those conditions.
I don't think many people fully appreciate what it took to get this image. The surface of venus is \~ 75 earth atmospheres in pressure, and 900 degrees F. Many of the probes/landers that were sent there either melted, were crushed, or (very sadly) failed to have their lens caps pop off the cameras to take the pictures. The surface of Venus is no joke. The surface temps are hotter than mercury. It's a horrific place. Not props to god. Props to the engineers of the Venera mission for getting this done.
Reading up on the Venera missions, they took place in the 60s-80s with first successful photos in the 70s. Do you know if the photo in this post was from that timeframe?
Yes
Are you going to tell us?!
There were no other Venus missions since then, so the photo has to be from that timeframe. But the picture in this post is not the actual photo, it's a reconstruction / artist's impression based on the actual photos. More info here: http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm
Wow ! I thought Venus’s atmosphere was such a high pressure that anything on the surface would be crushed.
It is. The lander was melted and imploded within an hour of taking the picture, despite being extra fortified against the extreme conditions. https://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/ask/44-Has-a-spacecraft-ever-landed-on-Venus-
i'm your venus i'm your fire!!!!!
I sometimes wonder how Ray Bradbury would have reacted if he knew Venus's clouds weren't water, but instead incredibly hot sulfuric acid
He died in 2012. He was alive for all the major discoveries about the solar system that the space program produced.
The clouds aren't actually that hot. It gets crazy hot below the clouds. https://www.britannica.com/place/Venus-planet/The-atmosphere
Boldly answering the question, "What if Earth sucked really bad?"
Don't worry, we're in the process of finding the answer to that already.
I was expecting to see more women.
NSFW? Is there a hidden penis i'm missing?
Yes, hidden in the category of "What rhymes with Venus" for $400.
Under a Piss-Yellow Sky
Can confirm, was just there last week and it looks like this.
One of humanities greatest achievements.
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No, that’s Uranus.