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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.



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in reply to @huldratigress's post:

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)

in reply to @mintexists's post:

It's pretty lucky we have those pictures considering how many problems they had with lens caps not coming off: each of Venera 9, 10, 11, and 12 had two cameras, and only 2 of those 8 managed to successfully deploy their lens cover (one on each of Venera 9 and 10).

Also Venera 14 managed to eject its lens cover directly underneath its surface compressibility tester, so all they got was readings of the compressibility of the lens cap.

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