Only four spacecraft have ever returned images from Venus’ surface. The world next door doesn’t make it easy, with searing heat and crushing pressure that quickly destroy any lander. In 1975 and 1982, four of the Soviet Union’s Venera probes captured our only images of Venus’ surface.

Mar 7, 2023 · There aren’t many good photos of Venus, and even fewer have been captured from the planet’s surface. Distance alone can’t explain the relative lack of pictures of Earth’s second-nearest neighbor....

Feb 28, 2025 · Images of Venus, our closest planetary neighbor. The northern hemisphere is displayed in this global view of the surface of Venus as seen by NASA Magellan spacecraft.... Venus Cloud Tops Viewed by Hubble. This is a NASA Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken...

Dec 21, 2024 · Researchers at Brown University have refined the original images, offering new perspectives on Venus’ surface. The enhanced visuals reveal a forbidding, alien landscape bathed in a golden hue caused by sunlight filtering through the planet’s dense, acidic clouds.

Nov 24, 2023 · To date, Venera is the only program to have sent images and audio from the surface of Venus. Venera 13 and 14 recorded sound, and Venera 9, 10, 13, and 14 took panoramic images of their landing sites.

Three-dimensional perspective views of Venusian Terrains composed of reduced resolution left-looking synthetic-aperture radar images merged with altimetry data from the Magellan spacecraft.

Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft. The Soviet Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft were launched on 8 and 14 June 1975, respectively, to do the unprecedented: place a lander on the surface of Venus and return images. The two spacecraft successfully landed a descent craft on 16 and 23 October 1975.

Mar 4, 2022 · Probably, new images of the surface of Venus will be obtained no earlier than the next decade by the DAVINCI+ mission. Within that framework, NASA plans to drop a probe into the planet’s atmosphere, the instruments of which will include an infrared camera.

Jul 2, 2023 · Most missions have observed Venus from afar, as the planet's climate is hot enough to melt lead. Take a look at some of the best images ever captured of the "evil twin" planet.

Mar 28, 2023 · However, we only have a handful of photos from the surface of Venus, and no new ones in over 40 years. This is not just a question of laziness from space agencies – Venus is not an easy...