The First and Only Photos From Venus - What Did We See? (4K)
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- Опубліковано 20 лип 2022
- 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
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?
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.
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.
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
From light bulb to Venus landing in a few decades. Amazing.
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.
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?
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.
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!
People only got to space because of war unfortunately.
@@TheHandleOnUA-cam No. It was worked on for ages, the war just accelerated the development.
@@jakubkrcma Do you think we would have made it to space by now without the Cold War?
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.
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
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
And the way he didnt succumb to the heat, props to him
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.
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 😁
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.
Soviet Union did AMAZING work in Space exploration ❤❤
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!
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.
It’s so cool how the surface of Venus looks earthy but also not. The yellow kinda light looks so cool too
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.
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
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.
My phone can’t work at my house but we can be sent photos back from Venus
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 🙋🏼♀️
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
Your voice and energy is better than any other that is related to planets. Most are just sleepy tone than yours. You rule.
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1 day on venus is longer than earth's month, so it has less time to cool, it is not because of climate change.
@@NionXenion-gh7rf Watch out! These days you might get a policeman knocking at your door with comments like that! :)
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.
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.
Fascinating! Great pictures!
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Fascinating brief photography moments!
Great job done with your documentery of the first time a landing was made on the surface of Venus 👍💯
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.
Looking back, It's astonishing what these probes discovered.
Wake up old man. It's all fiction and fantasy. Nothing landed on Venus.
I always find it astonishing the money and effort put into getting these photos
Thank you for the amazing photos, Venera team engineers ! 👏👍💛🚀👏
Venus is sooo interesting ! 👍💛👍
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 amazing. I had no idea the Soviets sent probes to VENUS!
Very interesting. Thank you.
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.
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
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
Ah yes, the Glowing Sea from Fallout 4. If Hell is real, this is what I'd expect it to look like.
This is so impressive!!
Imagine how frustrating it would have been to land the probes there only to have the lens cap problem!
Those animations are great and the transition between the ancient Venus and today's version is such a nice addition!
Beautiful information 👏🏻
Enjoyed whole heartedly
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
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.
Its still unbelievable that we have images from other planets surfaces.
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...
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.
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.
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
Ah, Venus. Such a pleasant and fun place to be!
Anyway, good video. It's an interesting, albeit barren place.
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??
Truly remarkable. It's like a fantasy world brought to life. Seeing another completely alien world is incredible.
@@Peter-88or not
The space race between the USA and USSR really was a productive period for studying the stars. Shame there was so much conflict between the nations, healthy competition would have been so much better!
Cameras were protected inside using a periscope type prism
System to get the photos. Ingenious arrangement to get the images from Hell Outside.
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
Wow, nearly 50 years later NASA still can’t actually land on Venus?! Who knew we were so far behind. Still shocks me we weren’t beat to the moon.
That’s what makes the ‘space race’ a bit of a joke. The Soviets did pretty much everything first except that one thing. First satellite, first woman in space, second woman in space, first space walk, first lunar probe, first, second… seventh Venus lander. No doubt they paid the price in human lives but they did almost everything first nonetheless.
Not only were we not beat but the Soviets never stood a chance of landing a Cosmonaut on the Moon. Which is why we did it in the first place. BTW we've always been far ahead of anyone else in aerospace technology.
@@1pcfred the great space race.
it is like two boys comparing their toys.
Clean your Earth first! Then you can play.
@@majdavojnikovic my Earth is clean enough. Who are you to be telling others what to do anyways?
So basically were smart enough not to attempt and lose tons of money on that imposible failure that was Venus at that time! Just wave the hammer and cycle flag, those guys lost tons of money and discovered very little.
The craftsmanship and mad expenses of these venera landers is astonishing! Platinum casements for cameras! Pure quartz fishbowl lenses !
We saw the same as we do on every single planet. Nothing living. Just rocks and dust.
Soviet Space Program was really the pioneer of space exploration. Hopefully Roscosmos can build on the legacy of Venera missions with the upcoming Venera-D that will be launched in 2029.
Yeah, they still hold almost every record you can think of and did almost everything first
@@jedaaa Yea, people don't realize that NASA was the copycat and was chasing after the soviet union throughout 95% of the space race, and A LOT of the technical solutions soviets used were then adopted by the US (even to this day, even Space X and Elon Musk still use some soviet design principles and Elon considers one soviet rocket engine to be the best ever designed) the only significant first NASA got was basically man on the moon, even though it's said that soviets had the ability to do that as well, they just didn't want to risk human lives and they didn't think the US would either. They did previously land on the moon remotely, and they drove a buggy on the moon remotely, and then took off again and brought samples back to earth, so they landed on the moon first technically, and brought samples back first, they just did it without humans. Which is kinda even more impressive tbh, to have robotics at that level back then.
@@derbigpr500 Yeah, the Soviets were actually due to land a man on the moon 6 days after the US but scrapped it when they got pipped to the post, and I'm not up on the latest but a few years ago I was listening to a NASA engineer talking about how they've been trying to reverse engineer the old Soviet multi-booster engines from the 70s but they still can't figure out the plumbing .
yes i remember seeing your sputnick orbiting the earth many years ago.Thanks from Australia,.
Due to german rocket technology.
Wow that's amazing that the camera was able to last even just a few minutes. 👍
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.
Can't help but giggle at the words.... Venera Probe.
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.
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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 had never seen these photos fin amazing.
Thank you as always, a brilliant look back at past missions with the anticipation of new.
Amazing how similar Venus and Earth are, and how they can be so different.
Venus, Earth, and Mars are similar and so different.....They may have been triplets once upon a time.
There's hints that Venus and Mars were earth-like at one time. Right now Venus is too hot, Mars is too cold and Earth is just right. But it might have been different millions of years ago
venus pics have a yellow filter on them, same as mars has a red one......... they both taken from earth guys..
Omfg!!! It's Earth!!!!
Similar in size only, but the similaries end there.
Fantastic!
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.
It's kinda sad that we didn't learn about these at the time because of the events going on at the time. The Venera Program is truly groundbreaking in almost every way but was silenced here in America due to the war. It's a good thing we can still learn stuff about Venus through the Venera program all these years later
You raise an important point about the historical context in which the Venera missions took place. During the Cold War era, the Soviet Union and the United States were engaged in a competition for space exploration and technological advancement. This competition had political and ideological implications, and it led to a great deal of secrecy and propaganda on both sides.
In the case of the Venera missions, the Soviet Union was able to achieve a number of significant firsts, including the first soft landing on another planet and the first photographs of the surface of Venus. However, these achievements were largely unknown in the United States at the time, due to the political climate and the lack of communication between the two nations.
Today, we are able to look back on the Venera missions with a greater appreciation for their scientific and technological achievements, and for the valuable insights they provided into the geology and surface features of Venus. The images and data collected by the Venera probes continue to be studied by scientists today, and they represent an important legacy in the history of space exploration.
The first venera mission landed on Venus in 1970 and had limited functionality but it sent back some data. The US Viking missions landed on Mars in 1975 which was our first lander on another planet. The surveyor Landers which preceded Apollo on the moon influenced the design
I am the son of an US Navy Petty Officer and I saw pictures of the Venera probes in a National Geographic picture atlas of the solar system.
This wasn't suppressed
@@andreworiez8920What does being the son of a Navy Petty Officer have to do with reading a National Geographic magazine?
@@kevinchrist1658 it was in response the post to show the information was widely accessable.
DAMN THOSE LENSE CAPS
wonder if lens cap issue was due to expansion of metal due to heat.
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.
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*Magnificent photos*
Thanks Russia for sharing with the rest of us !!
My house is actually over the horizon, to the left. 1:16
"Flat slabs of rock similar to volcanic areas found here on earth."....or just like our flat rocks.
Listen, my family from Mars visited Venus many years ago. We found a strange document that survived on this hellish planet. After bringing it back home. We spent half a decade trying to interpret the Venusian language. Finally, we were able to read this message from a long time ago. What did it say? It said; "This baloney of global warming could NEVER damage our beautiful world"!
It's perhaps worth mentioning that the heavily-insulated landers were pre-cooled to about -80 °C before atmospheric insertion.
All of the Soviet space exploration was achieved using but a fraction of the budget that was available to NASA at the same time.
Wow
They got their tech from occupied countries.
@@thewaryears - that's not really true. While the Soviets did indeed capture German rocket scientists at the end of world war 2, these scientists were gradually removed from the Soviet Union's rocket development programme. And engineers like Korolev, Glushko et al. were all-Soviet.
And, while the R1 Soviet rocket was a development of the German A-4, the R1's successors were dramatically different from the A-4. By the R5, there was almost nothing recognisable of the German technology.
The Venera probes were entirely conceived and built within the Soviet space programme.
In the west the scientists have always had to work within limitations of their investors' wants. In the soviet union there was more freedom for progress, as the government funded these programs and the goal was just to do the most with it. Also, education was great, starting at a certain period.
@Peter-88 - why on Earth would we need to do that? We already know about radiation protection (time / distance / shielding).
It was the American space programme - not the Soviet - that first discovered the Van Allen radiation belts around Earth. We know about the solar wind (among other things, the Apollo landing missions left instruments on the moon specifically designed to measure the characteristics of the solar wind); and we know how to mitigate its effects on both people and spacecraft systems.
We've known some of this stuff for decades.
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.
The soviets were secretly the first to discover the vault of glass
Very nice view.