The Russian space program worked incredibly hard to get those images. They focused on Venus when nobody else was sending missions there. I mean, still nobody else has really sent anything there!
But the Venera Program was incredibly successful despite, Venus being an extraordinarily harsh environment to operate in.
I didn’t know about it. I thought it must be impossible to have an image that was shot in a 450° hot sulfuric acid cloud that looks like normal rocks.
It’s unbelievable.
That sounds right. I recall that one of the probes had a camera that was able to take a series of images like a video. But the video visually degraded with every shot it took after opening the lens cap. The effect was like watching a movie as the projector film starts to melt.
The Russian space program worked incredibly hard to get those images. They focused on Venus when nobody else was sending missions there. I mean, still nobody else has really sent anything there!
But the Venera Program was incredibly successful despite, Venus being an extraordinarily harsh environment to operate in.
I didn’t know about it. I thought it must be impossible to have an image that was shot in a 450° hot sulfuric acid cloud that looks like normal rocks. It’s unbelievable.
Iirc, the probe lasted half an hour before being destroyed. It’s an astonishing achievement to have sent back those pictures.
That sounds right. I recall that one of the probes had a camera that was able to take a series of images like a video. But the video visually degraded with every shot it took after opening the lens cap. The effect was like watching a movie as the projector film starts to melt.