mentallandscape.com— Most of what we know about Venus is derived from the intensive Soviet study of the planet. The only existing images from the surface were returned from four of their landing craft.
Nov 14, 2006View in Crawl 4
Keep in mind.. NASA never sent a mission to the surface of Venus. We tend to take for granted NASA's management of its exploration artifacts--past and present. Soviet era pictures and scientific information isn't as easy to come by. This is good stuff.
Yeah, I love looking at other worlds up close like this. It ain't earth, and that is pretty damn cool to think about. But also it looks like a place that could exist on earth, so that shows you how there are most likely other earth like planets in this huge universe.
gcnaddictNov 15, 2006
mirrored: <a class="user" href="http://www.duggmirror.com">http://www.duggmirror.com</a> via referrer<a class="user" href="http://duggmirror.com/space/Pictures_Surface_of_Venus_taken_by_a_Russian_Lander_in_1975">http://duggmirror.com/space/Pictures_Surface_of_Venus_taken_by_a_Russian_Lander_in_1975</a> for those who cant do referrers
orangutanNov 15, 2006
OLD NEWS! these have been around since the 1970s... that was just for old times sake
growler1Nov 15, 2006
I want to congratulate you all for not posting a "Uranus" joke yet.
zym1zNov 15, 2006
Keep in mind.. NASA never sent a mission to the surface of Venus. We tend to take for granted NASA's management of its exploration artifacts--past and present. Soviet era pictures and scientific information isn't as easy to come by. This is good stuff.
mcottierNov 16, 2006
Yeah, I love looking at other worlds up close like this. It ain't earth, and that is pretty damn cool to think about. But also it looks like a place that could exist on earth, so that shows you how there are most likely other earth like planets in this huge universe.
mcottierNov 16, 2006
Why would we, it's Venus.
Closed AccountNov 17, 2006
It is hard to get around 900 degrees temperature. I always thought a lander could avoid being roasted if it landed on a high standing area of lower pressure and temperature. The adiabatic lapse rate on Venus is about 10.5 deg K per kilometer. <a class="user" href="http://pds-atmospheres.nmsu.edu/education_and_outreach/encyclopedia/adiabatic_lapse_rate.htm">http://pds-atmospheres.nmsu.edu/education_and_outreach/encyclopedia/adiabatic_lapse_rate.htm</a>The highest standing region on Venus is Ishtar Terra at about 10 km above the planetary mean.<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Terra">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Terra</a>So the temperature up there is about 105 deg K (190 deg F) less than the low lands. 700 deg is still pretty high. Perhaps gliders or balloons.
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