Started by Nikolai Volkov (@nvolkov) ·
Venera: the Soviet probes that landed on Venus and sent back photos
Venera 13 lasted 127 minutes on the surface of Venus, at roughly 470°C and 90 atmospheres. Its photos (and Venera 14's) are still the only color images from the surface. Nobody talks about this enough.
5 sources · 46 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “venera 13 photos venus surface”
- Ended at
- Vega program
The Trail
- “venera 13 photos venus surface” (google.com)
- Venera 13 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Venera program (en.wikipedia.org)
- Atmosphere of Venus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Vega program (en.wikipedia.org)
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