These Images Explain Why Venera Went Silent on Venus | 4K

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Building, sending AND landing a probe on Venus with 1960/70s tech was an engineering and mathematical milestone.

I don't believe it's possible to ever get over the fact that we have pictures of the surfaces of other planets. That is insane. You're looking at the surface of another bloody world. That's that stuff of myth and legend made real. Absolutely incredible.

I still maintain that landing on the surface of Venus and sending images back to Earth is the single most impressive achievement of space science.

When I first saw those eerie yellow Venera images as a kid, I became captivated by Venus. Sometimes it is weird to think about these exotic, faraway places actually existing, without any humans to witness them, until suddenly you see an image of an actual rock and there it is. The fact that we have these images at all - including that spectacular global radar map from Magellan - is an amazing testament to human ingenuity.

For anyone interested, 100 m/s winds is 360 Kph, or 223.7 Mph.

When the very calm before the storm is sulfuric acid...

Earth could have easily been much more similar to Venus if early earth life like cyanobacteria behaved differently, something like the great dying could have been life's end but life found a way. Life on Venus seems beyond unlikely, but with the constant discovery of extremophiles we can't rule it out, keeps it interesting.

15 trips to Venus in 7 years is wild. So many space missions in that era. We've had some great ones in recent years for sure. Cassini, Rovers etc, but wow did they have so many so frequently back then

Before the Venera probe we had absolutely no idea. There was a theory it was covered in swamps containing dinosaurs.

8:46 The obligatory "hot enough to melt lead" quote

It still blows my mind that we are soo far from the sun yet it still warms our planet so much. I can only imagine how hot mercury and venus must be

The Venera spacecraft and their missions are some of the most significant astronomical discoveries to ever come out of the USSR. Hats off to them.

Still waiting for a fire lizards and toxic Serpents on venus

I think my favorite imaginary possibility is the "floating life band" notion: that life might exist in a relatively narrow band within the atmosphere, a "sweet spot" that isn't too hot, too cold, OR too acidic. Someone had an illustration of flying cities even, habitats like immense bubbles that would be buoyant in the upper atmosphere, mining the clouds for various compounds. People could live in such places, protected from the sulfuric acid. Though exactly what valuable compounds would justify such a huge undertaking is where that idea breaks, haha! It's still a great mental image. Cloud City, in real life!

I like the idea of a city floating in the barmy oxygen zone, 60 km above the surface. I’d hate to fall off though.

Imagine if an advanced lifeform on Venus studied Earth and concluded that there isn't enough sulphuric acid in our atmosphere to support life.

To this day Russia is the only nation to land a probe on Venus, they had to create a new exotic titanium to do it, Venera had to withstand pressures equivalent to 3 miles below sea, the year after Venera Russia built 700ft titanium submarines learned from Venus probe.

I still remember in elementary school, we were looking at the only pictures available of Venus's surface at the time, and the teacher told us that the reason was because Venus's atmosphere is just too hazardous even for NASA's devices. The equipment that was sent to Venus was said to have been struck by lightning and destroyed before getting a quick picture to send back, which made all of the kids start theorizing how to mitigate the lightning strikes for future missions. The most popular "brilliant" idea that the kids insisted would work was making the space shuttle and rovers out of rubber somehow, because rubber doesn't conduct electricity as well as most metals do. Obviously, the teacher knew this wouldn't work irl, but she struggled to explain why it wouldn't actually work. Still, it was a very memorable class, and it's why I still remember why we know so little about Venus and struggle to learn more.

I've always been more interested in Venus than Mars. Nothing against Mars as I'm massively interested in it too, but I've always found Venus to be more interesting to explore.