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Tape-Noise Triumph: Venera 7’s First Telemetry from Venus

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Source: Space Daily
Tape-Noise Triumph: Venera 7’s First Telemetry from Venus
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In December 1970, the Soviet Venera 7 survived a hard landing on Venus after a parachute failure, delivering 35 minutes of descent data and, only after revisiting the tapes, 23 minutes of faint surface telemetry showing a ground temperature around 475 C and about 90 bars of pressure—the first data ever transmitted from the surface of another planet.

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In December 1970, the Soviet Venera 7 probe became the first spacecraft to transmit from another planet, sending 23 minutes of faint temperature data from Venus after a torn parachute tipped it onto its side and buried its signal in what engineers first dismisse  Space Daily

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