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Jack @MrNuclearMonster9/21/2023, 5:27 AM

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Huldra @huldratigress9/21/2023, 2:55 AM

there's probably millions of people walking around, who consider themselves relatively educated, who have no idea that we have pictures of the surface of Venus. Look at those pictures. That's just Venus. It's the surface of fucking VENUS man. Those pictures are from the Soviet Venera 9 and Vanera 10 landers, launched in 1975. That's the same year the Viking I launched, but unlike with Mars, we basically gave up on Venus. Haven't landed anything there since the 80s. Venus has a fucking surface temperature of over 400C and an atmospheric pressure around 92 times greater than Earth. Also the clouds are made of sulfuric acid. And we landed something there and got PICTURES of it.

#The Cohost Global Feed #astronomy #science #fuckin venus man #it's VENUS #that's the surface of VENUS

Peek @Peek9/21/2023, 3:39 AM

we also have pictures from the surface of FUCKING TITAN

TITAN. THE MOON OF SATURN.

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squircular reasoning @spiders9/21/2023, 3:12 AM

my favorite thing is how the probes who took these pictures basically imploded or failed spectacularly in some way practically a couple hours after landing. but also, iirc, they sent back these photos AND a ton of data. so the only surface data we have from probes on venus is like, two snippets a few hours long

(i havent read about this in forever, soz if its wrong, i dont feel like going and looking it up)

Amy Dentata @amydentata9/21/2023, 5:46 AM

I love how it's such unimaginably extreme conditions on the surface and yet, what's there? Some rocks. And some dirt. Y'know. The usual.

Vecderg @Vecderg9/21/2023, 7:53 AM

ngl i forgot venus even had a surface

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Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev9/21/2023, 4:15 AM

I wish we could just... go there. It looks like a quiet place with cool rocks.

Zuthal @Zuthal9/21/2023, 11:58 AM

Fun fact: If your spacesuit is light enough, the low gravity and high atmosphere density on Titan mean that you could fly by strapping wings to your arms and flapping

@secrets9/21/2023, 4:58 AM

Gotta say Titan has by far the better rocks. Look at that erosion, that is a place where stuff is happening (geologically)

stroking vines @stroking-vines9/21/2023, 9:51 AM

I guess it turna out the the thing that's breaking my brain a little here is that they took and sent photos on 1975 tech? I didn't know we had digitial cameras that early?? And we were able to cram the tech to transmit said digital photos into a probe to venus???

UnknownTVGuy @UnknownTVGuy9/21/2023, 9:25 PM

The digital camera was invented about 1969. But it cost a lot, was only used in tech fields, and didn't look as good as a basic, cheap camera. But NASA has been using digital cameras to take photos of the Earth as early as 1972 and some for telescopes just as long. Once it got easier and cheaper to make, that's when it was put on the market. There's a shockingly long history about this thing we thought just "showed up", but that basically how some inventions go.