The First and Only Photos From Venus - What Did We See? (4K)
Only four spacecraft have ever returned photographs from the surface of Venus. Our neighbouring planet doesn’t make it easy, below the clouds blistering heat and crushing pressures quickly destroy most landers. But, in 1975 and 1982, 4 of the Soviet Union’s Venera probes captured our only photos of Venus’ surface. The Venera landers scanned the surface back and forth to create panoramic images of their surroundings. They revealed yellow skies and cracked, desolate landscapes that were both alien and familiar, views of a world that may have once been like Earth before experiencing catastrophic climate change. Here are the only photos we have of the surface of Venus.
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Hats off to the scientists who made the Venera probes. They were well ahead of their time and gave the world these intriguing pics.
It’s Engineers who made them. Scientist are mostly interested in collecting data and studying it, they don’t really care about building probes. They’ll specify exactly what they want to achieve, and Engineers will build and manufacture it. Science and Engineering are close siblings, from the same parents, but slightly different. One comes before the other.
@@MosesMatsepane engineers aspire to become scientists.
@@Adgjmptw343 Not always, Engineering is an Applied Science discipline. So most of us really like to design and engineer cutting edge technology. Whereas Scientists tend to work on problems that are way out there in the distant future, and often not practical at all. The two fields are more complementary to each other, with Engineering being a little brother of Science. I don't want to be a Scientist at all. That will bore me to death.
My wifes an engineer and so are her friends and my God y'all love telling everyone lol
-has brain god gave an animal cracker
Getting pictures back from Mars is an extraordinary thing in itself but getting some back from Venus 40+ years ago is absolutely unbelievable
It certainly IS unbelievable...
I wished that Venus had over 40 moons
@@thomasdeturk5142 😄
It's almost like American propaganda worked...
no tik tok back then
One of them even took an audio recording of the surface. You could hear some ambient noises from the actual surface of venus while the probe drilled into the rock for its tasks. I find when combined with audio, it becomes much more real to me and I feel like I can almost picture myself standing on the surface. If you like this stuff I highly recommend searching it up, it's on YT.
This channel did a video about that 2 years ago. I know because it's on the right hand side of my screen in the recommended video list. 😂
Besides the burning anyway lol
now hit an accelerated back hop off jupiter
I havent watched the video yet of sound of venus but it probably sounded like deepfrying a food
the sounds from space sure are terrifying yet intresting.
From light bulb to Venus landing in a few decades. Amazing.
The Soviet Union never got the credit they deserve for getting photos from the Planets surface back in 82. The heat and pressure on Venus's surface doomed any probes chance of survival and the fact that they were able to land and take such stunning photo's on that planets surface should be applauded. We see Mars and a lot of people take those photo's for granted. But as great as an achievement all of the rovers on Mars are and were. These photo's dwarf those in every way.
Most of Soviet Union’s scientific expertise was taken from former National Socialist Germany.
@@intermilan9731 well ... most of the US scientific expertise came from there as well. Look up Operation: Paperclip. Vernor Von Braun headed up NASA
@@PhinneusPrune I know.
@@PhinneusPrune that wasn't from the Soviet union, that was from Germany when the UN and Israel were formed at the end of the war. They moved most of the people they deemed assets to other countries and covered up their involvement in the death camps. Some of them definitely ended up in the Soviet union but most went to Argentina and the US. Many of our nations issues today are the direct result of some of these people getting into governmental roles. It's a very weird situation if you ask me.
the credit should go to the scientists and engineers who managed to pull this off despite living in the soviet union
I've lost count of how many times I've looked these images up and just stared in awe. Colour photos from the surface of another planet all the way back in the 80's is really impressive.
what awe? if you see the same area one earth would you be in awe? no, its just your mind tricking you, there is literally nothing that can possibly give awe from barren boring planet after you have already saw whats possible on earth, thats just not logical unless your mind is tricking you
You could take these photos on earth and call them something else. Nothing special
@@sebastianspecter8843 That's because you can't appreciate or understand what you're looking at
i concur.
@@sebastianspecter8843 is the earth flat too?
I've never felt like this before but it's really depressing to think about how all these planets, giants in the space, are completely empty... I can't imagine how scary it would be to be there alone...
its eerie.
"either we are alone in the universe or we are not. both are equally terrifying "
you'd need a hell of a spacesuit which would imply a team behind you
I would love to have an entire planet to myself. Isolation gives me peace of mind.
As a Christian, It’s exciting to think that God made all of these planets, and that he knows every single crevice of this planet and of those too far to be seen now. It’s comforting to ponder that if He created them and knows about them, how much more for his children.
Space exploration is one of the areas where all people should cooperate. It pushes all of us forward. ❤
That's how we got the ISS
Yeah... it pushes us further in debt. Let's fix this planet before we screw up the rest of the universe!
Such high quality photos of an alien planet taken nearly forty years ago is just awe inspiring.
“Space may be the final frontier but it’s made in a Hollywood basement.”😂 They mock you to your face and you space monkeys don’t even see it. 😢
all or almost all of what you're seeing here is simulations
Now say usa or Soviet?. Meanwhile usa use low quality camera to capture moon landing
These landers, which were launched in the 1970s and 1980s, scanned the surface back and forth to create panoramic images of their surroundings. The images they captured revealed a stark and desolate landscape, with a reddish-orange hue and a surface covered in rocks and boulders. In addition to the panoramic images, the Venera landers also captured close-up images of the surface, showing individual rocks and other features in more detail. Some of these features included what appeared to be wind-swept plains and regions of rough, jagged terrain. The images also revealed the yellow skies of Venus, which are a result of the thick layer of clouds that blankets the planet. The clouds are primarily composed of sulfuric acid, and they obscure the surface from view in visible light. However, the Venera landers were equipped with instruments that allowed them to see through the clouds and capture images of the surface. Overall, the images captured by the Venera landers provided valuable insights into the geology and surface features of Venus, and continue to be studied by scientists today. They are a testament to the ingenuity and determination of the scientists and engineers who designed and launched these missions, and to the incredible technological achievements of the Soviet space program.
@@NaN_000 meanwhile USA still exists on a map.. Soviet Union, gone, since 1991.
It's so very impressive that this was being done in the 1970s. They already understood Venus's ridiculous atmosphere enough to actually land on the surface.. That's just amazing
That and the Soviets didn't have the tech that NASA had at the time, and they still managed 13 landings on the place. NASA still hasn't even managed one single landing on Venus.
But NASA has managed the onther neighbor - Mars.
@@prototype014 Mars is easy by comparison. Very little atmosphere and your probe will actually survive. Lower degree of difficulty is all I'm saying.
80s not 70s
@@mom4u412012 80s were the later missions, they began in the 70s, as stated in this video.
Fabulous video, thank you. I'm 63 years old and not in the best of health. I don't regret anything in my life, but I do regret not being able to be around when all the mysteries of our universe are solved for us. Young people, you have my envy!
"We are the middle children of history. Born too late to explore earth, born too early to explore space" anonymous.
❤
I'm 30yrs your junior sir, and I don't think we'll see anything you didn't.. I too don't want to miss when humanity explores the cosmos but I think the singularity is more likely
@@JakNekon How can we be born too late to explore Earth? It's easier than it's ever been to explore earth in our current times, being born long ago you would only be able to go as far as you would be able to walk which wouldn't be far. But we are definitely born too early to explore space.
It's great how the cameraman on Venus was able to hold his breath for so long and took these great pictures for us. Hats off.
Peak comedy
The cameraman always survives
@@toddwebb7521Except at Pearl Harbour
I used to look at these photos as a kid, as well as the ones that came earlier in the mid 70s from the Viking probes. What a lot of people don't realize about the Venera probes is that to take the photos, they needed to use a diamond window because glass just couldn't take it. It's pretty cool :)
Omg USSR sending diamonds to unusable planet, with that costly decisions, when it was in cold war, it was bound to get disintegrated.
@@T.K.P. Diamonds aren't even that expensive. On diamonds used for jewelry are extremely expensive because their supply is being held artificially low.
@@Shirokroete I know that, but as long as I can't get construction diamonds in cheap, I will have to take jewellery diamonds as real price.
@@Bullshitvol2 eBay? Good luck to you.
Well they can just create synthetic diamonds or lab grown diamonds which is cheaper. Also lab grown diamonds and naturally occurring diamonds are the same since they're created with the same chemistry.
I remember hearing about these missions and seeing the photos back in the ‘80s. It amazes me that we haven’t had much more technologically advanced probes land on Venus and transmit more photos of the surface in all the years since.
We prolly have. You can’t really expect these global authorities to share every bit of space data with ordinary folks. We prolly know a lot lot more. We are just not being told, it’s naive to believe we are.
People are much more concerned about tik tok dances
Agreed! You would think by now we would be able to accomplish this!
My cell phone im writing this on has more technology than the space probe. That's sooo weird to think about. Maybe I'm wrong?
do you think things have changed so much on that planet that we need more billion dollar photos?
Soviet Union did AMAZING work in Space exploration ❤❤
Good story telling. It's always good to learn something. Today I learned a little about Venus and hopefully we'll discover more during our lifetimes.
These images showcase the hard work put in by the scientists from Soviet Union. Imagine if the best brains in the world work together without much fight, how much more we can uncover about our solar system.
So many people are too hung up on their 'special' identities these days. They ignore that we are all apart of the same cosmic soup - not separate. Almost nothing of real value can come from this type of environment
Why would we want to do that, it’s easier to suppress poor people and start wars.
@@umageddon very true.
There are some things worth fighting for
@@umageddon the cold war wasn't about identity, it was about a fundamental disagreement on how society should be organised
This is absolutely mindblowing, I can't believe I didn't even know we had probes on Venus at one point
Yeah a lot of people forget. Nowadays we seem to just ignore Venus which is sad
The west cover up of course.
@@ADreamingTraveler because it’s a dry arid hell hole. It’s not really worth visiting again
Soviet Union, Cold War. I'm guessing we'll score no extra points for realizing why media attention in the West was somewhat limited in proportion to the feat.
we also have sounds from there 😁
Fantastic info & images, I don't remember seeing these back in the day. Nice to remember when space exploration was all about co-operation between countries and gaining and sharing knowledge of our solar system.
The Venera program was an incredible achievement and all about innovation, learning from experience and hard, precise work. NASA's probes (like Mariner 5)did help by collecting data from orbit; the new upcoming probes also benefit from both Venera and the Magellan Venus Radar Mapper. Magellan was a spacecraft designed by JPL in Pasadena and equipped with Synthetic Aperture Radar, designed and built by Hughes Aircraft Company's Space and Communications Group (I played a role on the procurement side). In 1989, Magellan mapped 99% of Venus' surface in great detail. (Today, that Hughes unit, along with Radar Systems Group, belongs to Boeing Defense, Space and Security.)
The Venera program sorta worked. Luna 25, two days ago, not so much.
@@spikespa5208 Russian spaceship crashes on the moon They used computer chips from washing machines and... got a spin off! 😂
@@spikespa5208 the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation are not the same thing
The 1982 color picture of another planet, I'm speechless how advanced they were so long back
say that to the wizard of Oz in 1939
Us neanderthals back then really did well for ourselves. You seem like we had no technology until the 2000s. I hope you are being facetious.
Alien technology
@@jerrytriplett5867I don’t they were saying there was no technology then. Just saying how clear the images were
@@lesleymaner2851when you pump in that amount of money into a probe it better be good.
The Soviets may have been our political enemies, but they had some damn good engineering skills also.
The soviets made some absolute engineering wonders. Imagine if the U.S and the Soviets focused all their efforts into scientific discovery and space exploration, as opposed to a pointless $20 trillion arms race. We would have humans all over the solar system by now if it weren't for pointless conflict.
The Soviet 'skills' were from kidnapped NAZI scientists, and subjected to forced labour
@@SuperAdventureR1301 and now they're doing the same exact thing to China. they don't care about humanity or unity. they always wanted to be no.1 country in the world
@@SuperAdventureR1301 The arms race wasn't pointless, it suspended Mutually assured destruction, for hopefully forever.
@@SuperAdventureR1301 it was only pointless bc of the gd commies. jfc. they wanted to dominate the globe with their ideology of enslavement.
Thanks for using Imperial measurements as well as metric. It makes the video more enjoyable.
It’s so cool how the surface of Venus looks earthy but also not. The yellow kinda light looks so cool too
This might be some of the best stuff the Soviet space program ever did. 900 degree heat and pressure that would crush a sub and they landed and got the photos. Well done.
lol and there was a camera to record them land ? humans are so ez to manipulate
@@ramidaoud7945huh??
Crush a sub!😳
@@ramidaoud7945Are you referring to the obvious recreation at 6:02 ? If so, don't project your simple mindedness onto everyone else. Only photos were taken. There was no claim that the clip shown was an actual footage of it landing...
@@charlesblanton1008the internet is full of more ons 😂
Equally as mind blowing, is that one of the veneras sent back an audio recording of the wind.
Which is also on this channel, Duke,,
@@TheUluxian ah this must be where i found it lol
What for real?? When wind noise was sent back to earth from mars few years back, it was announced as the ever first audio recording from another planet… the Venera missions prove otherwise.
@@Mr.Obongo i have it on my phone, extended to 1 hour - gets me to sleep really quickly!
My phone can’t work at my house but we can be sent photos back from Venus
Fascinating! Great pictures!
Getting an operational probe to the Venusian surface was one of the great engineering accomplishments of modern times. Yeah, the pictures were distorted and not very high quality, but holy cow they are miraculous given the unimaginably difficult conditions.
They are actually pretty high-quality especially the 1980s ones.
Didn't seem distorted to me
$hit, no-one else has been to Venus since
Shows how precious our planet is.
Yes, the study of other planets in our solar system, such as Venus, can provide important insights into the unique characteristics and conditions that make Earth habitable. By understanding how the planets formed and evolved, as well as the factors that influence their atmospheres and climates, we can gain a better appreciation for the fragility and complexity of our own planet. At the same time, studying other planets can also help us identify potential threats to Earth, such as asteroids or comets that could collide with our planet and cause catastrophic damage. By understanding the nature and behavior of these objects, we can develop strategies for protecting our planet and mitigating the risks of these types of events. Ultimately, the study of other planets and the exploration of space are important not only for expanding our scientific knowledge, but also for helping us appreciate the unique beauty and value of our own planet, and for inspiring us to work together to protect and preserve it for future generations.
BEST COMMENT EVER ❤
and unique
So brave....so bold
@@Yaaaay99pl😅😅 in
Great job done with your documentery of the first time a landing was made on the surface of Venus 👍💯
Fascinating brief photography moments!
Sometimes you've got to look back 40 years or so to find the best photos. Or, in this case, the only photos! What did you think of these images? Pretty impressive, right? Let me know below! Have a great day! V
THOUSANDS OF DEATHS
Can’t wait for 2029 I’m a bit of a space nerd and im mostly interested in Venus so this will be exciting
These are incredible images. The only thing comparable right now is images from moon landings and the Mars landers. I didn't even know we had these.
@@princessedesforets - What does this mean?
They are amazing 🙋🏼♀️
It's a dam shame that the Lens caps failed to open in the other mission's however the photos we did receive from Venera were quite incredible and credit has to be given to the engineers that designed it, let's hope the da Vinci probe is up to the challenge. Some high definition shots of Venus would be amazing! Great video as always "V"
I think it was due to the immense heat that they failed, probably melted while descending from the atmosphere
@@braincell4536 Nah. The government just doesn't want you to see the Venusian giving Earth the finger, um, tentacle!
How stupid are they?? How come they didn't switch to a sliding panel???
@@Atheist7 isnt that worse? It would melt faster or even fail faster than pop out ones
@@braincell4536 Look, the cap didn't "pop off", right? So, why not have a metal panel that slides open instead. The ship itself didn't disintegrate right away, make it out of the same metal.
Its crazy that this isnt more talked about. Like, i didnt even know we landed on Venus until a few years ago. The fact they did it in the freaking 80s is insane.
Thank you for the amazing photos, Venera team engineers ! 👏👍💛🚀👏 Venus is sooo interesting ! 👍💛👍
One very interesting thing about the probes is that they didnt really need a parachute, the air is so thick (90 atmospheres) the craft would simply slow down on its own as if it was falling through peanut butter. There was a parachute to slow it down high in the atmosphere but it was cut at a height of 50KM (!!!) to maximize the amount of time it spent alive on the surface and built to survive the impact at its very slow terminal velocity.
So it did need a parachute then? LMFAO.
@@Peter-88 v = sqrt {(2 * m * g) / (d * A * C)} As you can see, the gravity does affect the terminal velocity, but it is not the only factor.
@@Peter-88 so why don’t skydivers burn up in the atmosphere
@@Peter-88 "False! If the gravity is stronger than Earth" The gravity on Venus is only 90% of the gravity on Earth.
@@Peter-88 any heat from air resistance would be negligible to how hot Venus already is. Literally insignificant
Great video. Science and technology are just amazing. I wish we could explore more the space and planets around us. There's so much to discover, so many to gain from it.
Ah, Venus. Such a pleasant and fun place to be! Anyway, good video. It's an interesting, albeit barren place.
The images are almost deceptive of the reality they were taken in - the surface looks cold, not blistering hot, and that pressure is crazy. These missions were amazing accomplishments.
With 40 years of scientific advancements in space engineering, it's unfortunate that a special landing gear is not considered for this probe in order to take the best and most crystal clear panoramic images at 360° on surface. Images will be limited only during its descent. Hope and wish for the best of success on this project and its team. Thank you V101 Science for this amazing presentation and to those fearless and determined engineers of the Venera missions. Bravo!👏
landing gear is not the problem as all it takes is a relatively small air break. the problem is making the drone be able to withstand the temperature and pressure which would drive up the cost of making and sending the probe.
The lense cap, as you can see in the photos, is a large two-part metal shield... Looks a few inches thick. It is a huge chunk of metal that needs to be able to withstand bring hit by a planet sized blow torch through corrosive toxic air thick with little sandblasting particles, before landing in an oven.... And then the thing that survived that needs to pop neatly open and fall off. It's a shame, but honestly, it's a testament to society engineering that it worked at all. At that time, we didn't know all this about Venus.... It was mostly a mystery beneath the clouds. *THESE* are the the probes that answered the question. Looking at the surface... It's not likely the other side saw much.
I would imagine if we could get a look at any of the Venera craft today, they're probably about the size of a gallon paint can due to the pressure. That is if they haven't liquified into a pool of molten metal..
@BOB K i wouldn't say failing more like not attempting as you got to build the probe in a diving bell and launch it to Venus. aka a lot of money so you're probe can land on the surface for a couple minutes. also there is no point as a probe has already mapped most of Venuses surface from space.
@@TheUluxian Not molten metal. Most of the materials used didn't have a low melting point. Also, pressure doesn't work that way; most of the spacecraft was made of incompressible materials. What most likely happened was corrosion of the outer shell. Once that was breached, the pressure inside & outside the vessel would quickly equalize. The craft would just corrode away to nothing. Plastics would melt and boil away.
Venus has always fascinated me as a planet. I don't know why. I think because its so much like Earth and yet so drastically different. And also it's right nextdoor to us and we know barely anything about it. It's shrouded in mystery.
Play destiny 1
Basically it's a hellscape. Real hothouse climate, poisonous atmosphere and immense pressure. That and the planet barely rotates at all. Its year is longer than its day. Its almost tidally locked. Unfortunately, there's little of practical value to us there, but it's still fascinating.
@@danielharvison7510 Yeah it's a definitely a vision of hell. I think that's why it fascinates me because it's almost like a polar opposite of our own planet.
It's not remotely like earth... no water, 600-800 degrees Sulphuric acid atmosphere, etc... The craft lasted 57 minutes before succumbing to the environment...
@@DarkstarAndrew01 Yeah it's almost like the opposite of earth in that it's a poisonous scorching wasteland. You are right. The size of venus and earth are similar though and the gravity. And apparently they formed around the same time. Venus is also the only other terrestrial planet with a proper atmosphere.
Your voice and energy is better than any other that is related to planets. Most are just sleepy tone than yours. You rule.
Very clean images of the surface of Venus
Thank you as always, a brilliant look back at past missions with the anticipation of new.
The technology of the probe was amazingly advanced for its time! What amazes me even more is we’re captivated by possible life in other galaxies but we can’t even land on Venus or explore the other planets in our own solar system. The universe is always fascinating.
We can't even explore our own oceans lmfao
@@MetalCharlo almost every single part of the oceans have been thoroughly mapped
@@MetalCharlo 😭✌🏼
It's not that, our generation is useless
@@jedaaa no they haven't. YOU can simply look this up..... I just put in "how much of the ocean is unexplored " ?.... I got a answer if 80% of our oceans are unmapped ....unobserved and unexplored.... it goes on to say that much remaind to be learned from exploring the mysteries of the deep.. So... could you maybe explain where you got your information about our oceans being unmapped and unexplored since the information I have found which was the 1st thing that popped up says the complete opposite
In my unquenchable thirst for knowledge this is probably one of the best things I have ever seen
Beautiful information 👏🏻
Those animations are great and the transition between the ancient Venus and today's version is such a nice addition!
Great video V101! What The Soviet Union accomplished on studying Venus always has me in awe. I've got some ideas for future videos: Mariner 4 being the first space probe to flyby Mars in 1965, a dedicated video about Pioneer 10 & 11 as they deserve more recognition, Spritzer Infrared Telescope, Lucy mission, Mars Odyssey, DART
Enjoyed whole heartedly
Kinda weird with all the probes they just stare at the ground and instead of being even with the horizon
Seems they are doing just that
We believe that this is some of the best content on KZhead! That was so very cool to see. Ty for all you do. Cheers.
I have always been fascinated by planets, especially Venus. This video was the best I've seen of Venus so far, not only because of the clear pictures, but also for the information I didn't have. I've just registered. Keep up the good work, guys!
Well there's more out of the universe We only found a few oit of trillion or even quadrillion of other stars galaxy black hole planets asteroids
@@thehorrorartist9317 They make Venus look orange but the real color is yellowish white.
@@thehorrorartist9317well no duh there’s more out there, we can still be fascinated in a neighboring planet if we want to
I'm more fascinated by Mercury. Did you know on Mercury, a day is longer than a year? And it's not as hot as Venus (Stated in this video)
@@TraceguyRune I didn’t know that, that’s pretty cool.
I always find it astonishing the money and effort put into getting these photos
I had never seen these photos fin amazing.
I just wanted to say that these videos are fantastic. You put so much work into them which is clear with your narration. The picture and sound quality is excellent, and the videos are educational and (most importantly) interesting. Keep it up! 🇨🇦
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoy them. V
@@V101SPACE background music??
That has to be the best video I’ve ever seen in my entire 52 years. Thank you so much for doing this.
Time to call it quits
@@Peter-88 agreed.
You’re welcome
Its still unbelievable that we have images from other planets surfaces.
Fantastic!
Loving this high quality content. Fascinating astronomical info. Subscribed.
Awesome channel with awesome content and great quality as always say 💯
Very interesting. Thank you.
The craftsmanship and mad expenses of these venera landers is astonishing! Platinum casements for cameras! Pure quartz fishbowl lenses !
I remember when the first ones launched. I never saw the images, and am beyond impressed with the skills and results of the scientists and engineers of Russia who did all this without computers.
They had computers for number crunching, though they were the size of a box van. I was playing basic computer games in 1972.
ussr was not just russia
soviets*
not russia but ussr. and they had computers of that time
There were computers in the USSR in the 80-s. They were the size of a wardrobe and had the power of a pocket calculator. I remember them.
Tantalizing glimpses, aren't they? Bravo to the scientists and engineers who made them possible. Fascinating as always. Many thanks. Hope you and Rolo have a great weekend. 🇺🇸❤🇬🇧
This is so impressive!!
Cool Story Bros!
Looking back, It's astonishing what these probes discovered.
Wake up old man. It's all fiction and fantasy. Nothing landed on Venus.
This is amazing. I had no idea the Soviets sent probes to VENUS!
Cameras were protected inside using a periscope type prism System to get the photos. Ingenious arrangement to get the images from Hell Outside.
It's wild to me that Venus is so well-lit. Genuinely shocking. I'd expected the cloud cover to make the surface a dark, volcanic landscape lit up by magma and flashes of lightning. The fact it's just... Normal light levels, but yellow, is... Surprising.
I guess some kind of automatic exposure control.
Perfectly narrated and very interesting subject - thanks for posting.
This is absolutely fascinating. Thank you for the video and information.
Venus is so hot that you could bake a large pizza in about 10 minutes or less, thats ridiculous
That sounds like a business worthy of investment...
There is one thing that is not mentioned here, maybe it's out of topic: In the year 1986 one of the Venera missions crossed the path of Halley's comet. This Venera mission was also used to explore this comet.
It's nice to get some information about planets and things beyond Earth that we've actually seen rather than being made up largely of conjecture. Good stuff!
Amazing how harsh that environment is. It's also amazing how much work and effort went into those probes for such little in return.
Billions of dollars for photos that mean absolutely nothing to anyone.
@@gsxr419 Obviously, you're clueless since you can see how many people are here admiring the amazing photos. Just because they mean nothing to you -- no one cares about your limited interests and curiosity.
@@gsxr419 speak for yourself
the lens cap problem was probably due to the sheer air pressure present which didnt allow it to seperate. Probably almost like how its near impossible to open the door on a drowned car or while its going really fast.
This is fascinating, although it might perhaps be slightly more appropriate to compare the temperature on Venus to the temperature on Earth in Kelvin.
Eerily fantastic shots from those Soviet Venera lander craft. One could almost imagine be standing on the surface and picking up one of those rocks.
Go to Kamchatka, Russia, and then you'll be able to pick up one of those volcanic rocks, without having to imagine it any more.
Absolutely amazing photographs. Could you imagine what it would be like if people were able to visit Venus? That is, if atmospheric conditions there made it possible or if scientists found some way to protect the astronauts from the extreme heat, extreme atmospheric pressure, and sulfuric acid clouds. Yellow sky? How cool. I think it's unfathomable how scientists can engineer even an unmanned spacecraft to land on another planet and then send back pictures and other data. I wouldn't even know where to begin.
I have zero idea how they even know the temperature of a planet that’s billions of km away from us
Yes people with destroy that planet also like earth Humans are a menace
@@Us3r739when certain materials on the lander melts and lots of sensors.
Yes they would just love living in a dull looking desert with no water being incinerated and crushed at the same time a dream vacation.
@@harlow743 but venus has lower gravity than earth...edit: sorry, I forgot about the air pressure.
I like how they waited until Venera 12 to finally adress the lens cap system issue ^-^" I'm sure they had good reasons as to why they didn't fix it after the first 2 or 3 failed attempts. These photographs are impressive, even more so considering the harsh conditions on Venus. You can tell these scientists and engineers went all out. By the way I was wondering what are these spikes or "teeth" that we see at the base of the probes for ?
Ah yes, the Glowing Sea from Fallout 4. If Hell is real, this is what I'd expect it to look like.
796th viewer :P It's so amazing that they were able to land in such harsh environment and we can be amazed with photos of that planet's surface... So great.
Excellent video! This is the first time I had one of your videos recommended to me, and I'm really glad I decided to check it out. I wonder what condition those early landers would be in today? Would there be anything left of them, or would the conditions have managed to completely destroy them?
The metallic components would remain below melting temperature. The surface & atmosphere are Beyond "bone dry", and no free oxygen in the atmosphere, so corrosion could come from the sulfuric acid in the atmosphere - and (as is currently understood) any sulfuric acid "rain" falling from the high clouds would evaporate before reaching the surface. Don't know whether sulfur dioxide (third most abundant compound in the atmosphere) would corrode metal, but it does attack silicates. Otherwise the atmosphere is about 95% CO2. So I'd suspect they'd remain physically intact / recognizable for some time.
I can't wait till we are space faring and I can set foot on this beautiful planet!
This is so cool seeing the Surface landscape of another planet “ Venus” 👍 i’m your Venus
When our best images of something is 40 years old it tells me we haven't explored enough lately.
The globalists who run the world now dont want us to explore they want us to starve and die.
With the collapse of ussr the space race slow downed a lot. There was no competion of doing new things but now things are again getting interesting, hope it continues.
I had no idea these photos existed!
So frustrating. This is like seeing the interior of a mansion through a keyhole. We get an invaluable glimpse. But, it is just enough to make us want to see SO much more.
Imagine how frustrating it would have been to land the probes there only to have the lens cap problem!
I'm grateful for the wonderful photos taken by the soviets back in '82. Sadly Venus has been romantisised for thousands of years as a beautiful sister to earth. Then we saw the real conditions in these images. Reminds me of grey slate. We're lucky to have our beautiful planet that provides us with life. We must care for it as none of the other 8 planets in our solar system are liveable sadly
Yes we have people spending billions trying to colonise Mars which is much less terrible than Venus. Yet the best conditions on Mars are much worse, much more toxic and dangerous than the worst conditions on Earth. Let alone Venus!
Venus is a vision of hell which will go on forever in human terms .Bleak , hopeless and eventually getting even hotter until it is destroyed by the Sun
It’s crazy how Venus and Mars being on opposite sides of us have the same dry toxic landscape, and yet we have vegetation and life. Crazy
It’s the Goldilocks zone
We are rich in carbon!!!! But that is something what government wants to remove and made this our planet dry and death. Robots does not need carbon and oxigen 😢
we were lucky. other planets were also probably lucky but still in the early stage. Also we dont know anything outside of the visible universe
Not crazy at all. Venus spins incredibly SLOW. It takes Venus 243 Earth DAYS to spin ONCE! It's daylight bakes the planet for 2,989 hours! This is why it's so hot.
As a hunter, hiker, backpacker, and fisherman I always find it shocking how deep in a forest I can be and still come around human trash. There's a saying that no matter where you go, even in the depths of a rain forest, you'll find human trash. Yet as I watch stuff like this I realize it's not just earth. We're littering other planets in the solar system with trash too and some day if anyone ever walks the surface of those planets they'll find human trash.
Why do you think humans are not wanted in space.
I love these photos since the first time I saw them. Such a barren featureless landscape!
These photos are really beautiful and amazing !
I never knew they landed so many craft on the surface of Venus, I thought it was only one. Also, quite funny that the lens cap issue plagued all of the craft that landed.
It’s amazing they can communicate with the probes, having it take pictures and be able to send it back to us over such a distance is almost unbelievable.
well the probe communicates with the orbiter and the orbiter communicates with us, it would've been far more complex back then for the probe to have a long distance transmitter in that harsh environment