How the Soviets Landed on Venus
In the 1970s and 80s, the Soviet Union put 5 landers on the surface of Venus and they each survived for over 30 minutes. No one has tried it since.
From time to time, someone will post to Reddit pictures from the Venera missions and everyone goes "Nice". And yeah it is pretty cool that these pictures exist. But have you ever wondered what it took to build a machine capable of taking those pictures? Like, how did they do it?
In this video, I want to look at the Venera space series and the engineering behind this stunning achievement.
If you want to hear the Venera 14 audio in full, try this soundcloud link: / venus
Notes:
10:35 A few people noticed the 140 kilometer number and I missed by a zero. It's 14 kilometers or 8.7 miles. Good thing I'm not an accountant.
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I don't understand why this isn't hailed as one of the biggest accomplishments in scientific history. The fact they were able do this, and do this with 70s Soviet era technology not once but five times blows my mind.
because there were commies
@@leland818 unfortunately not everywhere 😩
At least in the Latin American country where I lived, Venera 13 and 14 touching down on Venus were front-page news!
@@leland818 agreed and it sucks that people are sometimes indoctrinated from a young and impressionable age to think a certain divisive way 🤷♂️
@@leland818 This is true. I think most people would be surprised if they knew how much data was shared between NASA and the Soviet space agency.
Blows my mind that this happened in the 70s, and you rarely hear anything about these landers.
Sounds like you just are not knowledgeable about this...
@@Daveeeeeeyhowyoudoing Oookay buddy, chill out.
Cold War specifics. The West tended to downplay, strait ignore or even badmouth Soviet achivements.Things didn't change much, did they?
@@zakvadin The more things change, the more they stay the same.
@@zakvadin Nazi Germany was also advanced but they also get downplayed a lot, mainly because people don't want to give credit to nations accused of genocide. It was also overshadowed by the Moon landing, as landing a man on the moon is infinitely more complicated, you only have 1 shot. Soviets wasted 8 landers before they got it right and they never could successfully land to Mars within 20 attempts. Soveits could have landed a man on the moon and USA could have landed a lander on Venus, different priorities. AMazing feat from USSR tho, with low budget and garbage QC
You forgot to mention Vega-1 and Vega-2 - the last Soviet landers on Venus. They carried two ballon aerobots that traveled about 11000 km in venusian atmosphere in 46 hours.
@@steve0504 seek help
@@steve0504 your kid doesn't love you
@@Lizarenx LMFAO
@@steve0504 manchild
@@steve0504 hopeless.
Great video. So many Soviet advancements get swept under the rug these days. Glad to see the work of these incredible people see the light of day.
"Our rockets fly far but our assess are naked" - This quote greatly summarizes CCCP & today's Russia.
@@Kociboss Ignorant of the fact that the Soviet Union had the highest living standard in the whole of Europe throughout the totality of the space race.
@@henryatkinson1479 Thank you, you made my day :) :)
This isn’t true
@@henryatkinson1479 absolute utter nonsense.
My dad was in the science council of the RFBR ( Russian foundation for basic research) . Once they had some anniversary meeting and he by chance was sitting next to the gentleman who designed the camera for Venus mission. He said that those were the strongest emotions of his life when the fist data successfully reached earth, nothing compared. "Even children's birth", my dad clarified? "Yes, not even that", he honestly replied.
I can imagine. Back then were more hopeful times. Nowadays we are so cynical, we hear about any kind of scientific advancement, and we don't feel any personal attachment to it. When Pfizer came up with the vaccine after taking their sweet, sweet time, we almost wished they had never developed one, for instance, with all the vaccine mandates. The electric cars were a disastrous and overhyped failure. Government in the 3rd world are bankrupting the country to buy "green energy" from the west. Parallel development, fraudulence, unethical resource extraction, automation threatening employment... It's hard to be excited about anything under capitalism. It truly stole our humanity.
Hats off to your father and the team for the huge accomplishment of the century.
@@Tawheed_101 biggest*
@Mark Walther I can't see how you have managed to realize the sadness of living in Russia from what I said about the achievements of Soviet scientists. I am sure if you ask some NASA astronauts or researchers to openly share the overwhelming emotions (in the informal circumstances) they have experienced due to their professional success I am 100% sure you ll get similar response most of the time. The sadness of life in Russia, if you ask me, follows from: corruption, absence of court system and human rights, free media, respect of private property, drugs and AIDS, the number of orphans, alcoholism, the nature of military obligation.
@@papashirt you described all the problems in the US at the moment
-"Comrades, you have lead melting temperatures, bottom of the ocean pressure and you know that acid in car batteries? Yeah that too.... so we need pictures" -"Colour or b&w?" -"Yes"
Indeed, comrades could send a space probe to Venus, while at least 3/4 of all households could not even dream about own washing machine of refrigerator...
@@danender5555 Or having food for that matter
@@kingcosworth2643 and gulags, dont forget about gulags! hundreds of millions were killed every day personally by stalin! thank lord avengers came to save everyone! god bless Armenia!
@@Timsturbs Stalin died in 53 the space stuff happened after.
That's having the right priorities:D
USSR: 1957: First intercontinental ballistic missile and orbital launch vehicle, the R-7 Semyorka. 1957: First satellite, Sputnik 1. 1957: First animal in Earth orbit, the dog Laika on Sputnik 2. 1959: First rocket ignition in Earth orbit, first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity, Luna 1. 1959: First data communications, or telemetry, to and from outer space, Luna 1. 1959: First man-made object to pass near the Moon, first man-made object in Heliocentric orbit, Luna 1. 1959: First probe to impact the Moon, Luna 2. 1959: First images of the moon's far side, Luna 3. 1960: First animals to safely return from Earth orbit, the dogs Belka and Strelka on Sputnik 5. 1961: First probe launched to Venus, Venera 1. 1961: First person in space (International definition) and in Earth orbit, Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1, Vostok program. 1961: First person to spend over 24 hours in space Gherman Titov, Vostok 2 (also first person to sleep in space). 1962: First dual crewed spaceflight, Vostok 3 and Vostok 4. 1962: First probe launched to Mars, Mars 1. 1963: First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6. 1964: First multi-person crew (3), Voskhod 1. 1965: First extra-vehicular activity (EVA), by Alexsei Leonov,[80] Voskhod 2. 1965: First radio telescope in space, Zond 3. 1965: First probe to hit another planet of the Solar System (Venus), Venera 3. 1966: First probe to make a soft landing on and transmit from the surface of the Moon, Luna 9. 1966: First probe in lunar orbit, Luna 10. 1966: First image of the whole Earth disk, Molniya 1. 1967: First uncrewed rendezvous and docking, Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188. 1968: First living beings to reach the Moon (circumlunar flights) and return unharmed to Earth, Russian tortoises and other lifeforms on Zond 5. 1969: First docking between two crewed craft in Earth orbit and exchange of crews, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5. 1970: First soil samples automatically extracted and returned to Earth from another celestial body, Luna 16. 1970: First robotic space rover, Lunokhod 1 on the Moon. 1970: First full interplanetary travel with a soft landing and useful data transmission. Data received from the surface of another planet of the Solar System (Venus), Venera 7 1971: First space station, Salyut 1. 1971: First probe to impact the surface of Mars, Mars 2. 1971: First probe to land on Mars, Mars 3. 1971: First armed space station, Almaz. 1975: First probe to orbit Venus, to make a soft landing on Venus, first photos from the surface of Venus, Venera 9. 1980: First Latin American, Cuban and person with African ancestry in space, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez on Soyuz 38. 1984: First woman to walk in space, Svetlana Savitskaya (Salyut 7 space station). 1986: First crew to visit two separate space stations (Mir and Salyut 7). 1986: First probes to deploy robotic balloons into Venus atmosphere and to return pictures of a comet during close flyby Vega 1, Vega 2. 1986: First permanently crewed space station, Mir, 1986-2001, with a permanent presence on board (1989-1999). 1987: First crew to spend over one year in space, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov on board of Soyuz TM-4 - Mir. 1988: First fully automated flight of a spaceplane (Buran). USA: 1963: First geosynchronous satellite 1964: First geostationary satellite 1969: First humans on the Moon Verdict: USA has won the space race!
No one ever was in space
American only movies
As a fan of space/astronomy/etc, I was always fascinated by those surface pics of Venus. It's old hat to see pictures of the surface of Mars these days, but Venus is another beast entirely. It was a great human achievement. Thanks for the video.
Still blows my mind what they achieved in the 70s.
How can anyone be sure Venus even exists???!!!!??
We need another Cold War or something because the space race slowed wayyyyyyy down since then lol
🤦♂️
@@HighSpeedNoDrag how can anyone be sure that clouds exist?
@@nicehorn5250 No we don't. We just need Americans to change their attitude so it doesn't have to be WAR for the US to do anything good.
Im proud of my professor in atomic physics at the university in Moscow. She was a young assistant in Venera 14 project
Getting to the surface of Venus seems like a space mission tailor made for the Soviet Union. What do we need to get to the surface lads? A space probe/tank/submarine thing made of every exotic material you can think of. Does it have to be particularly sophisticated? No, it just has to be TOUGH! Great achievement 👏 Great video 👍
Dude only asked for 700 likes??? This is one of the best made commentaries on the Soviet venus program on youtube. It deserves and has gotten a ton more. I hope this dude is doing well.
True!
Well he's approaching 40k likes a year later so I'd say people agree with you!
The space programs of the 60s through 80s made being a kid back the GREAT.
@Stellvia Hoenheim Learning about the solar system is ignorance? Oh, that is right the earth is flat?
Yup technology and people we not to smart to prove them wrong imagine if google existed in that time period, the world would be a better place
@@cyclenut lol
That's a big 10-4 Big Buddy.
Yep it was. I used to love watching Carl Sagan. I could hang on his every word.
An acidic atmosphere that's like having a half a mile of water on top of you and entry? That's an insane feat. To have anything function for any period of time is crazy
I remember being equally fascinated by Viking and Venera images. There's something about surface photos really bring it home. Nothing against New Horizons, but I liked the images from Huygens made feel the surface of Titan.
Pressure like the bottom of the ocean, and hotter than a volcano.
capitalism will do anything. (. jk), except give credit for a accomplishment made by the working class, especially under capitalism
@@clown134 You must be joking I hope.
@@brandoninhofer6592 totally serious sadly. unless you have examples to the contrary
I learned from this video more than I learned in school ( back in USSR ). Very impressive achievements for 60-70th. Thank you for such interesting material!
The engineering achievements of the Americans and Soviets during the “golden age” of space are nothing short of brilliant. I’ve always thought it was a shame that there wasn’t much cooperation and sharing of resources between the two, because their shared efforts perhaps could accomplished so much more (but then again, competition breeds creativity, so maybe it was necessary to be adversaries). It’s an often overlooked part of history that JFK, when he proposed the moon landing wanted it to be a joint program with the Soviets as a bridge to peace, Khrushchev declined the offer. It’s always been a major “what if” in my mind.
I think it's because allot of the tech involved was related to weapons, cutting edge stuff to "hopefully" have the edge on one another. I agree that a collaboration would have likely netted some even crazier stuff but I also see each side wanting to keep their cards close to their chest considering it was the cold war. Nvm each system (capitalism/communism) trying to prove their way was the best way and under no circumstances wanting to credit either side with anything that could even remotely gesture that their respective system produced anything of value. Sorry for the terrible grammar.
Did khrushchev decline it or did he die before he said anything?
10:10 insane that this disk was enough to slow down the probe, due to the atmosphere being so freaking dense.
I guess the atmosphere is made of flat earthers
@@Helperbot-2000 Flat earthers are quite "dense", yes.
@@renerpho yes that certainly is the joke i made
My thoughts exactly. I was like : "How the fuck can a disk, be a parachute at 100 atmospheres ?"
The density is what makes it work. Just like how a fan will fall slower in water than air.
I loved this! NASA’s Viking probe sent back the first images of the surface of Mars when I was in 4th grade, and I remember staring at the posters of the Marscape in my school’s hallway for as long as possible. I didn’t know about the Soviet missions to Venus until I was in high school, and I’ve never had the chance to really inspect the Venusian landscape like I did in this video. Great work!
What do mean and or intend by "We"?
@HighSpeedNoDrag good catch, I should have said “NASA”. When I wrote “we” I actually meant humanity, but the rest of my comment doesn’t make that clear. I’ve edited the comment to reflect that.
Voyager never was even close to Mars. Viking landed there and with highly probably found some lifeforms - to this day is no other solution and the system never failed. Author of the experiments also confirmed the finding of life.
you mean Viking probe?
i think you meant viking?
I really love this kind of historic extreme engineering content. Hell, you can even call this modern cutting edge extreme engineering because nobody has been back there!
I’ve always wondered about this. It felt mysterious because it wasn’t widely talked about. This was awesome.
Incredible technical achievement.
Still nothing like it.!!!!
Your mind has been controlled with lies.
@@Datanditto yup amerika fell for every trick in the book !!!!
@@Datanditto but you know the truth, right?
@@Datanditto I love how my six simple words triggered the ever-living shit out of you 😊. Are you a flat earth believer? In my head I imagine you are, I hope I'm correct.
I have maintained for decades that this was the single most impressive feat of space exploration.
The US landed men on the moon. Lol
Yea im shocked and can’t figure if Iv known and forgot or never knew
@@spammerscammer Yeah if they had landed men, sure But sacrificial robots - wildly impressive Still not living things
@@spammerscammer the moon is very close to us, and the moon is relative forgiving comparing venusian conditionts. Two very different things
@@spammerscammer The moon is heaven compared to Venus.
Phenomenal achievement!!! Just learned about this recently and it blew my mind! Cheers to all who were involved in the program!!
A brilliant video: the depth of information is amazing -- I knew a bit about these landers, but the technical info was mostly new to me.
That's what real exploration is about. Not thinking about financial reward or benefit, just doing everything possible to achieve the goal. Respect to the Soviet engineers and to their space program. Even today, the experience they have in rocket technology, for example, is invaluable and indispensable.
Because the Soviet program and the idea of a “space race” was so crucial in the founding of the American space program it really is a big one huh
Freemason lies.
лапоть, Ex-USSR here. Meanwhile, the toilet paper 🧻 wasn't available in USSR at the time they spent billions on those attempts of "peregnat' Ameriku!". No, household ACs aren't available too. Color TVs? Huh, chill out comrade!
Also, belgrad gorí!
Technology that they stole from the US via a network of spies. That the US inherited from the Nazis as spoils of war via Operation Paperclip.
The "baloons" you mentioned were an incredible achievement as well. As far, as I remember, the USSR and France joined forces to send the Vega series to Venus
Didn't know that France helped them, that's fascinating.
@@thatdognotthepuppy5809 as far as I remember, they also measured the distance to the Moon using a French laser with a Soviet reflector
@@TheKopalhem the reflectors on the Lunokhod rovers were French-made.
@@MarzoVarea I meant the whole rover as "Soviet reflector"))) Thank you for the correction
@@thatdognotthepuppy5809 De Gaulle was a worthy leader. Last worthy leader we had in a while. He famously quoted that europe should be from the atlantic to the ourals, which resulted in him getting ousted by the americans, so i'm not surprised he agreed to cooperation with the USSR. :)
Really nice video. I like all the technical details. Would you consider placing the values in the video? It really helps when comparing, for example, one mission to another. If you simply read numbers off, it turns into a memory test and I find that I need to re-wind sometimes. Anyway, keep up the good work.
One of the most interesting videos I have ever seen regarding the Soviet space program. The Soviets doggedly pursued exploration of Venus, in part, because of its close proximity to Earth. The surface pictures, many I have never seen, are stunning.
Actually soviets started with Mars, but landed just 3 small robots probed Mars soil at late 60es, but never actually pushed further for some reason, switching totally to Venus in their efforts.One of the reasons arguably is exocomet entered Solar system and passed very close to Venus at 80es. Vega project was done in collaboration with Europe space agency, though there was simply not enough data to calculate trajectory for landing on comet body. Vega probes were used to precise comet body position and trajectory, to make Europe probe land, though Europe probe failed as well. Though, it passed quite close and got quite weird data like complex organic molecules in comet flare.
We question the moon 🌝 landing the US videos and 🤙 call with the president... Plus NASA lost most paperwork!?
@@miaguilar5512 Its indeed extremely weird stuff, but I guess mostly due to american *ssholes don't want to share their landing tech which is unique and patents are long expired. Soviet space station module was bought by americans and built at Russia for Internation space station and reverse-engineered somehow, I guess mostly due to tech focused intelligence for their own chinese station recently, so this tech is officially spread around. Manned landing is not. Though, maaaaybe actually manned landing was staged. There are evidences about huge spacecraft landed on moon, but if it was manned or not is questionable thing. Bcs for crippled soviet economy space race became an extreme toil, like between 61 when Gagarin was launched and 69 when first man stepped on Moon soviet union had a bench of revolts due to economical hardships pressing simple peoples. So it was easier to agree that americans won and cancel costly program, spending money and resources for something more useful.
It's crazy to think they did all this with computers the size of houses that didn't even come close to the processing power of an iPhone or Android nowadays.. and we still have problems with the technologies we use to launch things now but yet somehow we're able to make these trips 50 years ago ..... Kind of mind numbing
I think the fail rate is lower today. At least I hope so...
THEY NEVER LANDED ON THE MOON I AM THE DARKSIDE.......
Calculations were never a issue with computers. It was sending mass amounts of data at once that was. The calculations might take a hour to process but it happened eventually.
It just goes to show you don’t actually need computers to be productive. What’s crazy is how dependent we’ve become; teachers at my local school claim they can’t teach 6 year olds to read unless they each have their own $1000 iPad.
@@s4098429 my father taught me the basics of reading through the use of phonics and how to continue on my own by the time I was four. They must be terrible teachers.
I remember wondering why the Soviets went to Venus instead of going to a lot less hostile Mars as a youngster, and it turns out it was simply because Venus was closer to Earth and therefore easier to reach. Either way as a schoolboy in the seventies I remember seeing these pictures and being blown away at what I was looking at, a great achievement now to land on Venus and transmit photographs, but to do it in the seventies with the technology of the time, is truly remarkable.
No, it's harder to approach. Space navigation is more complex than you were told.
@@worldoftancraft What is harder to approach? Venus was closer to Earth than Mars at the time. Flying towards Sun you are pulled by it’s gravity.
@@pawelpap9 you might not heard, but slowing down is also a consumption of fuel
they went to Venus not because it is closer to Earth, but because it is an extremely difficult task in space exploration.
Its mostly because of the challenges you face. Venus is tough but predictable. That made it fit well with Soviet specialty to make durable sturdy stuff. Mars required way-easier technology from the engineering side, but you need to have more advanced computing technology to e.g. wait out a sandstorm in orbit before landing. It still remained a remarkable feat. And in contrast to Mars, it still does, with today's technology.
Well, you got way more than 700 likes! Thanks for this - I never knew any of it. Fascinating! I knew about the Luna missions (mostly debacles) and of course Apollo, but not Venera. Thanks!
Soviet engineering is greatly under reported in the west.. great video 🙏
Soviet engineering was greatly under reported around the world, not just the west.
@@ADITADDICTS I was about to do the same thing.
It's all fake, bro.
@@ssgllc7007 Great avatar btw. 👍
@Mark Walther lol! Exactly!
Loss of words - Salute to the Soviet engineers of the time who achieved this feat with limited tech at their disposal. ✨✨✨✨
Wait till you find out that they did everything but put a man on the moon first with a fraction of the budget of NASA. ;)
@@kristoffer3000 The US took credit for the space race, acting as if the goal through the entire technological race was to land a man on the moon - and the world bought it. Everyone still believes the US won the race because they are too ashamed to admit defeat to a country they were raised to hate. The Soviet Union was a truly accomplished and legendary nation that never receives the credit it deserves modern-day because of mixed political beliefs.
>limited tech The soviets were cutting edge, we were the ones who got to the space race late lol
@@snixal both countries got most of their tech from ex nazis brought in after ww2. Btw the first picture taken of the earth that showed its curvature was on the back of a stolen V2
@@snixal No, by 1970s, Soviet was seriously lagging in supercomputer technology.
Great research. I really enjoyed this video and I had honestly never heard of these missions. Thank you for bringing this information to us.
Those were some of the most entertaining and informative 17 minutes I’ve ever spent on this site
They got the Hero of Socialist Labor award. That wasn't good enough. Anyone who makes a probe that lands on Venus that works should get the Demigod of Space Engineering award.
@just another human They took pictures.
@just another human the us would of been very quick to discredit the soviets if they would of found any foul play
@just another human And that would be the Illuminati? Blofeld? Lizard people? Bezos?
@just another human It worked for an hour, the thing is that the battery got cooked because the thermodynamics in Venus are friggin insane. The place is the closest thing to hell that we know in the solar system.
Not to be outdone, the U.S. established the Villain of Capitalist Ownership award! Bezos has won it several years consecutively!
I've heard that it's much more difficult to send probes to the inner planets than the outer ones, which, if true, adds to the accomplishment
Course corrections are more potent when you're farther from the sun's gravity well. And you effectively are speeding up your orbit to get out farther, so your approach is relatively slow.. Going in on the other hand, requires a lot of orbital decelleration. And that also means you're probably moving toward your target very fast, so you have to slow down when you get there. So all of this means lots of fuel, and very small windows to hit. Landing on Mars is throwing a basketball through the hoop on your garage from 6 feet away. Landing on Venus is throwing a baseball in the open passenger window of a car driving past your house at 35mph, while you stand way back at your garage.
@@virt1one cue trick shot compilation video of kids landing rovers on Venus in 2055.
Yeah, adding heat to a spacecraft to stay warm is a lot easier than trying to pump heat out to a very hot environment.
@@virt1oneAlso the car is on fire.
Yep getting to Mercury takes more fuel than leaving the solar system! That's why only 3 probes have ever been sent to it.
Excellent episode, this channel is simply must to watch, great stuff👍
The World: wow we landed on moon (384 thousand km) Also The World: landed on Venus, that's good (45 million km) Also The World: landed on where? What's Titan? (1.2 billion km) On the other hand, sending human and bringing them back (under 1969 tech) is mind-blowing. All these achievements are amazing.
As an engineering student, understanding what type of genius and ingenious that were used it still blows the mind. Soviet scientists are goats огромное уважение и спасибо всем советским ученым
They can't even make a light bulb without importing technology from the West.
The most sad thing, after Soviet union break all funds of labs were stopped and basically A LOT of scientist and engineers appeared on streets unemployed. Some of them, achieved to move around the world, like 90es economic and tech growth arguably was achieved due to cheap and experienced soviet engineers working now for labs around the world. Though, not all of them and in 90es at Russia a cliché of "PhD janitors" or "Dr. Janitor" appeared. Moreover it produced extreme arrogance toward education in general as "Educated merits nothing" Now, as you can guess, it bites Russia and other post-soviet countries into lower back quite hard. Though, extreme brain drain toward western countries or China doesn't permit to profit education on state scale. Like just 1 of 10 masters degree graduates stay at country after graduation. Its calculated from for some less required abroad professions or for example for IT more people stay at country after graduation, though programmers work for foreign companies from home. For professions required abroad it can go straightforward to less than 1% of graduates stays at country after graduation. So government makes education more and more private due to for state its futile expenses and obviously it becomes less and less affordable or as good as it was. Some big name universities are still kicking, though just some of them and mostly they prepare specialists who will work for highly classified weapon tech or kind of. And some "still decent though underfunded, so constantly degrading" public ones. Its not actually about low quality, its about job offers unlocked by degree. And even if western universities academic wise are worse, they prepare exactly for work environment you will face at western companies, so they are way better for your CV, what mostly counts for any reasonable student. And today its mostly done as old school soviet generation is mostly retired or will retire totally soon.
They duped you. that's why. Freemasons duped you. The Cold war was fake... so were all of the Moon landings and Venus landings. Your mind was brainwashed, not blown.
@@antonzhdanov9653 one of the myriad tragedies
All soviet scientists??? There were many that did terrible things in gulags
Whenever I think about weird space discoveries I get super weirded out by how much we actually don't know and how much is still just a good guess.
We actually know more about near space- 104 km to 350 km- than we know about the bottom of the ocean. Another hostile environment problem. FR
Yeah I’ve realised that lately, won’t be long till we know a lot more about what’s out there
@@fredericrike5974 So much unexplored area just in our solar system rather than the galaxy
Wierded out ?
@@WoolfEdits There are many fertile fields to occupy man's curiosity at home for long after mankind goes out into space. Then we will find new planets and likely find new conditions we hadn't imagined. Travis is "weirded out" by our lack of knowledge- I'm a little taken aback by how long it seems to be taking for mankind to realize how much we can do together is limited only by the stars, and how little we will get done bickering and squabbling over basic issues to the detriment of those that truly do affect us all. That weirds me out. FR
16:48 "If this video does well... let's say 700 likes". One year later it has 44K likes and 1.1M views. I guess that mission went better than expected.
Now 1.4 M views and 52k likes.
1.5 million views and 52k likes 👍
59K likes right now
1.8M views and 59K likes right now and still going strong!
You did a fantastic job relaying the information.
Awesome vid! People don’t know enough about the achievements of the Soviet space program. They did a lot of amazing stuff, that was mostly overshadowed by the moon landing. Landing on Venus is almost like driving a sub to the bottom of an ocean, but on another planet.
@Paol Vrobel Sputnik alone was insane and the real first manned orbit dude what are you saying???
@@brad7073 Not so much "insane" as "inevitable." Mostly space programs are a waste of money. They're worth it for satellite and missile tech but beyond that they're similar to getting a fountain in your garden because the neighbours have one.
It was intentionally downplayed because of American failures on every other stage
@@Dmitrisnikioff I think it's more that by the 70s and 80s people had just gotten bored of the space race. By that point even moon landings weren't considered important.
@@peterhoulihan9766 you don’t understand just how much R&D come out of space programs. Composite materials, solar panels, small scale nuclear reactors, data transmission, computers, etc … Just be glad of all the tech that is around us and will be in the future thank to space programs
USA: We land humans on the Moon! USSR: Yeah that's a very cool achievement, but have you ever landed 5 probes on Venus?
i got pictures of my back yard, ER i mean PLuto! beat that!!!
@@chaztitan6457 But I guess we are talking about 1970s not 2008 when new horizon took off for pluto. Interestingly the engine used in that rocket was Russian built.
The astronauts landed on the Moon six times, if you choose to talk numbers.
humans on moon > pictures from venus
@@JH-ot5mn In terms of sheer technical difficulty, landing a probe on Venus is much more difficult.
You certainly got your 700 likes heh. Watched this quite a few times now and have been receiving the news letter since forever, very much enjoyed!
Fascinating episode. Thanks for posting!
I first heard about the Venera missions at the Washington DC space museum. The exhibits were ho hum, except for one that caught my eye. It was a relatively small plaque showing the image of Venus. I thought it was impressive, but when I looked at the date, my jaw dropped to the floor! It was no surprise why it was my first time learning about it and why it was given such a subdued presentation.
"Ruski = bad, my own satanic children-carpet-bombing government = gud!" That's how your "average Joe" dipshit thinks, so of course no achievement from russians, chinese or arabs would ever be publicly accepted, let alone loved.. But if you ever been friends with any of the above, you know that they all love & accept our acomplishments.. It's only one-way with western society today, it seems.
US propaganda has always hushed up the achievements of great nations.
A Great Salute to Soviet Engineers 👌
@Mark Walther indeed, mistêr phoreigner. You know for sure and better than even they. Continue to spread your obscurantist bullshit. Also, where did Alan Turing go? You didn't see him lately? God, was that place a goulag?
@Mark Walther that's cope and you know it
@User Canceled What about great depression death
Brilliant video.. You said you enjoyed researching it.. I really enjoyed watching.. (btw yt suggested your video, the thumbnail worked)
im so glad you covered this and in so much detail. its sad how this doesnt get the same attention the moon landings did
Great production. Totally unique video. Please make more like this. Fantastic to be able to survive on such a hostile environment. Well done audio content!
It’s 100 atmospheres of pressure but it looks so clear, the visibility is uncanny considering how much atmosphere there is per unit volume
That's not how it works. If you compress normal air to 100 atm it would still be transparent (assuming no fase changes).
@@MuitaMerdaAoVivo I know, it still feels strange, cuz you're looking through 100x more gas.
@Madcalf Mooring Yeah they would, deep ocean divers stand pressures way bigger than that and the water is the same.
@Madcalf Mooring it's nice to see you don't know what an example is.
It didn’t look very clear to me. Hazy, with no view to any distance scenery. Visibility looked to be 10m, but it is hard to judge.
The USA may have got to the moon, but those USSR scientists definitely looked at something much harder and had a "hold my vodka" moment and succeeded on getting surface pictures of Venus. Totally insane...hats off you to ghost comrades.
Excellent video and analysis! Well done!
Great post. Another interesting topic rarely heard about.
Right! I'm a Cold war child of the '80s and I have never heard of this until now. I have to admit I'm kind of embarrassed. Awesome stuff!!
We need an award for major science and technology achievements either forgotten by the public or isn't famous enough
You got WAY more than 700 likes man! Very well done!
Excellent job. I appreciate the research that wenit into making this , it was presented very well.
When I actually looked into this the first time, I was blown away and surprised this doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. More pressure than the bottom of the ocean and hot enough to melt lead, with acid to top it off
Wow! I’ve been familiar with the landers before but this is the first I’ve learned of the amazing engineering they utilized to survive the harsh conditions. Thanks for making this!
Wonderful video on a wonderful subject! I remember seeing apicture depicting a Venera probe in a book about space for children - the probe with the 'hat' was in the picture and the orange Venusian sky with lightning in the background. It was so intriguing. I waited almost 30 years to find out more about those probes - I take my hat off to you for making my dream come true.
I find this extremely interesting, thank you for the content!
Just discovered this channel, what a gem!
Between the Sputnik and Venera programs it is understandable why the US was so concerned about Russia during the space race. These events were all be fore my time but I agree that these things should be celebrated as incredible engineering achievements. The one area where humanity has been able to transcend National Boundaries and Politics is the research and mission collaboration through the various space programs. Thank you for this great video! I teach Aerospace Education for the cadets in my Civil Air Patrol squadron and I will definitely be doing a presentation on the Venera Program now. Regardless of the nation, this is an incredible feat of human engineering!
I'd say it's more correct to write it as Vênêra. And after all it gives it more foreign look.
Good post.
Salut was really what scared the US. The fact that they could maintain presence in space over and over again was in many ways equal to what we did with Apollo even if it wasn't hailed as such.
1969 USA: we got a man to the moon 1970 CCCP: Hold my vodka
Honestly some of the most stunning photos I’ve seen
Great video guys. Very well laid out.
The Soviets taught us how many different ways there are for a probe to die on Venus. Turns out, more ways than there are probes.
Hey
may it be that you have no idea what temperatures and pressures are on Venus?
@@alestbest Its in the video. May it be that you didn't watch the video?
Venus is the most durable planet if a probe lasted a half hour it says a lot about the quality of the engineering and might prove the materials battle worthiness back on earth pretty cool experiment
Wtf your comment is very harmless you are not saying anything weird or rude. Why people attacking you here.
Have never seen most of these photos. Dumbfounded by the views we had of another world "like earth" 50 years ago.... Thank you!!!
You are welcome. Steven can I be frank with you?
SUPER ABSOBLOODLUTELY THE COOLEST VIDEO I EVER SAW ON THE SUBJECT ! THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! KEEP UP THE EXCELLENT WORK AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALWAYS !
Thank you so much for this video!! I loved it! I'm a big fan of the history of landers and orbiters and such, and these missions seem to be not often mentioned. Hopefully our robots will make it back to Venus for another look one day! Thanks again! I'm subbing! God be with you out there everybody! ✝️ :)
Great video, very interesting. Always wondered how much work went into making something that could operate on the surface of Venus. It's absolutely mind-boggling that they were able to get ANY data back from the probes, let alone up to 30 minutes worth.
Great post, as usual! Unusual but very interesting topic. Very surprised that they were so advanced.
Bro this fucking explanation is badass I am so glad you put this together because this is more informative than mostly anything I see on KZhead anything I love how you explain how the sensors the wiring the covers the mounts everything you explain is correct and makes sense I'm subscribed already
Thank you for this video! The only thing I've heard in Western documentaries is: "It's the Soviet probe. Its thick armor failed in the Venusian atmosphere"))) But the filmmakers "forgot" to mention how long the probe had worked before its armor failed
...The Soviets had 4 probes fail in Venus' atmosphere before the first probe (Venera 7) successfully landed. They also attempted to lie and say Venera 4 landed, but this was thwarted by a NASA probe which measured the pressure of Venus' atmosphere to be much greater than the Soviets had been led to believe, which made it clear to the world that Venera 4 couldn't possibly have survived, since it wasn't built to handle those pressures.
Dude you create very high quality videos, thumbs up.
It truly was an amazing feat of engineering, especially being so long ago now.
Nice video. I don't recall much about these explorations though I was in school at the time. Well documented and informative video. Thank you for sharing.
I just found this channel and i can already tell its gonna be my new obsession
Brilliant & well done. I'd never heard about this before. Fascinating. You've earned a like and a sub.
Billionaires - new sport for you: Which of you can make a probe last in surface of Venus longest. Holding that record on your name is a crowning award in engineering. Elon, is a whole day - or even week down on Venus plausibly possible? Show us how - break the Soviet record proper and claim the title of top bloke.
@@daniellinville192 👢 👅
Sorry, Ilon is busy of plan B for our doomed civilization. See, if it's doomed to fail by itself, let's repeat it on Mars. Everything will go fine, he promises
Anything above an hour would be an extraordinary feat. Any material would melt at such a high temperature and pressure, cooling it even for a few hours would be almost impossible. It would ultimately come down who can make the thickest shield
How did I not know of this incredible feat of space engineering!?!?!?
You never visit Wikipedia 😂
These are the only type of things worth watchable on KZhead
"To test it the engineers threw it out of an airplane 70 miles / 140km above the ground" Something is wrong with that statement.
It definitely made me pause
I believe they dropped it from a high altitude weather balloon.
Made me wonder, too
Definitely wasn't a plane
70 miles isnt 140km and a plane cant fly to 140km of altitude
amazing work comrades. a great success, then and now. Long Live the Memory of Gagarin. spasiba.
Why did I only find the great achievements of the Soviet Union on KZhead? I don't recall these Venutian landings making news in my country at the time. The surface reminds me of slate. Would be wonderful to return sometime in the future for more exploration
Seems your national news agencies werent too keen on reporting CCCP successes.
Thank you for shar8ng this info. Journey and end both awe inspiring!
"I'd like it if you would". Best way to say it.
Insane!! This is WAY more impressive than anything that's been sent, well ... ANYWHERE! (Except the voyagers) Great job with the research.
I recommend noisegating the audio to cleanup this highpitch-hiss. Otherwise: As always - enjoying the hell out of your content! 😁
Landing and capturing images from a harsh planet like Venus is a greater achievement than landing on the moon
Over the past couple of years, NASA has been working on potential ways of exploring the Venusian surface, including using a rover with a wind powered clockwork drive mechanism. The metal alloys that could work with this already exist (think on the lines of what is used in the thrust vectors of high-performance military aircraft). As for transmitting information back to a craft that is in orbit, it wouldn't have much bandwidth, but I would think that vacuum tube based electronics could be made to work at those temperatures.
Actually vacuum tubes are susceptible to heat, as well as generating a lot of heat. This is one of the reasons they were quickly abandoned for almost all electronics once semiconductors and solid states came along. What looks promising are a new class of solid states made of materials that help them work in very hot temps. I've seen some designed to work in temperatures as hot as 300 degrees Celsius. Still well below the surface temps of Venus but with proper probe design they could last longer than the previous Venera probes.
@@doncarlin9081 We probably have to wait for silicon carbide electronics to be developed because it is hard to process the crystal needed for those electronics, but the material is much more heat-resistant than silicon dioxide chips.
@@richardarriaga6271 germanium? Those things are much more resistant to heat
@@doncarlin9081 What do you think of Silicon Carbide chips? etc could those potentially work
we're probably still a while away from them actually trying it
Great video! Love stories of the space race and the USSR programs. Subscribed!
700 likes? How about 59,000?! Well done. Loving this channel.
Atmospheric pressure correlates more strongly with surface temperature than any other single factor (don't think about that too hard or you'll get cancelled though). It is amazing they managed to build anything that could survive a landing on Venus.
The Soviets were some tough people! They built everything like a tank:).
Apart from Chernobyl
@@RyleKittenhouse We've made mistakes and had accident too as well as other nations. Try shooting down one of their HIND's:)
even though soviet people barely had something to eat but the government had to show the world that their dicks are just as long as those of the US. they weren't however.
@@RyleKittenhouse Fukushima
@@pauliusgecas472 did you live there to know
Amazing accomplishment. I did not realize they had done this!
Really sat back and enjoyed!! thanks dude!!
I love documentaries your voice and content are great ❤