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    Venera 5 und 6 wurden heute vor 57 Jahren (17. Mai 1969) von der Venus verschluckt. Dieses Foto existiert aufgrund dessen, was sie uns auf dem Weg nach unten erzählt haben

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    2. The_Rise_Daily on

      Fifty-seven years ago today on May 17, 1969, Venera 6 plunged into the atmosphere of Venus, one day after its twin Venera 5, and together the two probes became the first mission to conduct a coordinated, back-to-back atmospheric survey of another planet. Each probe transmitted temperature and pressure readings as it descended through Venus’s clouds before being destroyed by the pressure at around 10 to 12km above the surface. Despite never reaching the surface, Venera 5 and 6 produced the most detailed profile of Venus’s atmosphere at the time, confirming that any future lander would need to withstand pressures roughly 90 times that of Earth’s surface and temperatures around 465°C. The Soviets went back to the drawing board, and just over a year later, Venera 7 became the first spacecraft to ever land softly on another planet, transmitting data for 23 minutes. Without the lessons of Venera 5 and 6, it likely never would have survived, and without that lineage of hard-won engineering, Venera 13 never would have sent back the first color images from the surface of Venus, like the one you’re looking at now.

      [The Venera Missions: Soviet Conquest of Venus](https://www.therisedaily.com/p/the-venera-missions)
      Cover Image (Composite) Source: *USSR Academy of Sciences / Brown University / NASA Archives (Don Mitchell)*
      Venera Probe Designs: [Venera 6](https://space.skyrocket.de/img_sat/venera-6__1.jpg) | [Venera 13](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/Venera_13_probe_-_illustrated.jpg/250px-Venera_13_probe_-_illustrated.jpg)
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    5. mJJKM0yw on

      Always reminds me a bit of Las Vegas on a day when the pollution is bad and there’s no wind. Vegas does have Sagebrush though. We should try to plant some on Venus, bet it could take it.

    7. Sea_Television_3306 on

      Someone correct me if I’m wrong but this photo is highly edited, no?

      Like the actual image sent back is really just the bottom portion of this picture and it was in black and white?

    8. ReactiveCypress on

      There’s also sound recordings from Venera 13, which is wild to listen to

    9. codacoda74 on

      Bottom of ocean is like 90 times more than that pressure wise but that heat is something else.

    11. Ilikethewordjawn on

      I wish humanity would stop putting an emphasis on blowing each other up, and spend our time collaborating with scientific endeavors and we could have so many more incredible moments like these.

    12. Crazy-Boat9558 on

      With today’s technology, would we be able to send a probe that would last longer?

    13. CombatPilot2 on

      This is an **edited version** of the rear camera of Venera-14. The original barely showed any horizon. This is an artistic interpretation of it.

    14. xHangfirex on

      „This photo exists because of what they told us on the way down“

      What?

    15. mamba_pants on

      I posed this fun fact the last time this image was posted. The soviets wanted to mesure the compressibility of Venus’s surface so they make an arm that would strike the ground after touchdown. You can see it on the left side of the craft, you can also see that it didn’t strike the ground, but the lens cover of the camera that was ejected on landing. I don’t know what were the odds that the lens would land directly on the spot that the arm would hit, but I know that there was a lot of су́ка блядь utterred when the soviets found out what the issue was

    17. boytekka on

      I remember reading somewhere before that above venus’ surface, it has a habitable zone in the atmosphere? I remember reading that there was some plans on making a floating base or something above it

    18. Lower_Ad_1317 on

      I find Venus extremely exotic. That it can melt the best of our tech even in some cases before they touch down….

      Amazing place.

    19. Malcolm_Morin on

      Once again, this is an altered image. Only the ground and probe were photographed.

    20. haruku63 on

      Surface soil probe was deployed, but unfortunately the protective lens cap, that popped off after landing, came to rest exactly at the spot where the probe would try to hit the ground.

    21. ClearPocket3820 on

      Its wild thinking about the sheer pressure and heat those things endured just to send back a few fuzzy pictures.

    24. cruisin_urchin87 on

      “Swallowed”? My understanding is that Venus is a furnace of a world. Wouldn’t a more appropriate word be “melted” or “cooked” by Venus?

    26. Mudlark-000 on

      The lens cap for the camera on the Venera probes was notoriously bad. Venera 9, 10, 11, and 12 all landed, but due to the periscope camera design the lens cap didn’t pop off, so they saw nothing. On Venera 14, the lens cap came off the camera properly, but then landed right where a sensor was to analyze the Venusian soil – they got an analysis of the lens cap instead…

    27. Leotard_Cohen on

      These images were not the originals but were reprocessed, possibly with a bit of artistic licence, by Don Mitchell. I remember finding his website in the 2000s when I did my undergrad, I used the info in a presentation, and found the site so fascinating I downloaded every page to a 32MB memory stick so I could read it all properly at home. Those were the days

    29. CantaloupeCamper on

      The Russian landings on Venus capture my imagination more than most.   The idea of this one-way mission where you get a very limited time on an incredibly hostile planet is super cool.

      It’s got all the makings of a save the universe kind of sci-fi movie.

    32. Lokitusaborg on

      This picture has fascinated me since I was a kid. I wish we could figure out a good way to study Venus up close. I have imagined a giant science platform filled with O2 (on Venus due to the carbon dioxide atmosphere O2 is a lifting gas) hanging in the atmosphere 70k feet above the surface just riding the currents there.

      I believe that I read somewhere that at that altitude, atmospheric pressure is 1 bar and so humans could feasibly walk around with a breathing apparatus (other factors notwithstanding, of course)

    33. Benbot2000 on

      What did they tell us? “Oh god, it’s so hot! I’m being crushed! Goodbye world!”

    34. LiquidSoil on

      Makes me wonder if the probes are still down there on the surface, maybe just a molten slag mound or some slightly recognisable parts still there.

      Or the acid simply destroyed it all together

    35. bad_chemist95 on

      It’s weird to think that there’s a little solid puddle of melted metal on Venus that humans sent there.

    36. SkyScreech on

      What altitude was this photo taken at? Like is it ground level? Human eye height? 50 feet in the air?

    38. HubrisOfApollo on

      New high-temp semiconductors being developed may allow for a trip to Venus without the electronics getting fried instantly. I hope I get to see more of the Venusian surface in my lifetime.

    39. Petrctale on

      They weren’t swallowed up the were crushed by the weight of the atmosphere and 800° f temps.

    40. TheOverBoss on

      So I’ve been wondering if the entire surface looks like this or did the probe just happen to land in a very flat area?

    41. PestoPastaLover on

      I wish there was more photos like this of other planets. I’ve always looked at this photo with a sense of marvel and the very real understanding that humans in my lifetime will likely never step foot there.

      I’ve also thougt about is there anything left after all these years? Probably not.

    42. EnvironmentalWin1277 on

      Venus may have had life early on in solar history. If life is confirmed to have been on Mars this increases the likelihood of early Venusian life, the early conditions on Mars,Earth and Venus were all fairly similar.

      Any sign of life on Venus has probably been destroyed. It is interesting to think about how the surface could be sampled for signs of organics as an indicator that further exploration would be warranted.

    43. big-papito on

      To those who say „Russia“ landed on Venus, please stop. Russia did not land on Venus. The Soviet Union did. It’s a totally different country. I know it’s small thing but it bugs the hell out of me, as someone who grew up in the Ukrainian SR. This was an effort of multiple countries in a union (Ukraine probably provided a critical amount of engineering, given that the rocket engines were produced there, at least).

    44. _CZakalwe_ on

      Couple of notes: original photo was 512-ish lines looking down, full of glitches. This is somewhat ’extrapolated’.

      ’Camera’ was basically a walking spot scanned and pointed at photo multiplier tube (trough different filters).

      As far as I recall, 470 deg C and 70-ish bar pressure at surface. Probe had active cooling and survived an hour or so. Titanium sphere.

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