Venera 7 launched 45 years ago on Aug. 17, 1970 and ultimately became the first spacecraft ever to send data from the surface of Venus. It send data for 23 minutes after landing on Venus on Dec ...

Venera 8 repeated much of the Venera 7 mission, albeit without its lander falling over when it reached the surface of Venus on July 22, 1972.

Kosmos 482 was built as a sister probe to Venera 8, which launched in July 1972 to become the second craft (following Venera 7) to land on Venus. Once there, Venera 8 beamed data from Venus for ...

Venera — the ambient experimental project helmed by Korn guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer and composer/filmmaker Chris Hunt — have announced they’ve got a second album on the way. The duo’s sophomore ...

Kosmos 482 was built as a sister probe to Venera 8, which launched in July 1972 to become the second craft (following Venera 7) to land on Venus's scorching surface.

Venera 7 The Venera 7 probe. Photo: NASA Venera 7 has been lying on the Venusian surface for over 50 years, so there might not be much left of the Soviet probe—the first to reach the surface of ...

A mockup of the Venera 7 lander, similar to the object that fell to Earth. The Soviet's Venera 7 made it to Venus in 1970. ESA If you’ve been spending much of the last 24 hours inside a secure ...

The Venera 4 mission sent a probe into Venus' atmosphere, but played loose with whether or not it actually survived a landing.

This model of the earlier Venera 7 probe shows the heavy protection to survive entry into the Venusian atmosphere. Emerezhko, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The mission was part of the Soviet Union's Venera program, which achieved the first soft landing of a spacecraft on another planet with the Venera 7 mission in 1970, and followed up with another ...

In 1970, Venus was the first planet reached by a space probe — the Soviet probe Venera 7. Within an hour of its arrival, Venera 7 was destroyed by Venus' extremely high temperatures and acidic ...

(via SciShow Space) Venus may have been named after the Roman goddess of beauty, but once humans started sending spacecraft to the planet next door, we quickly learned that beauty… hurts.