Venera 13 Survived Venus's Inferno for 127 Minutes, Returning Basaltic Panoramas
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In March 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander survived 127 minutes on Venus—nearly four times its 32-minute design life—enduring 457°C heat and 89 atm pressure to return two color panoramas of flat basaltic rock under an orange sky and gather surface and atmospheric data; this long-lived surface mission remains one of humanity’s clearest records of Venus, and no surface mission has succeeded since Vega 1985.
- In 1982 the Soviet Union landed a probe on the surface of Venus that survived 127 minutes in heat that melts lead and pressure dense enough to crush a submarine — long enough to scan back two panoramas of flat basaltic rock under an orange-tinted sky b Space Daily
- The mangled remains of probes sent to Venus may still be there Scientific American
- 57 years and one day ago, the Soviet probe Venera 6 traversed the clouds of Venus for 51 minutes under parachutes and stopped transmitting 10 kilometers from the surface because the pressure of 60 bar and the heat of 320 degrees Celsius crushed its 405- CPG Click Petróleo e Gás
- The Remains of at Least 7 Probes May Still Exist on This Hellish Planet Gizmodo
- The Soviet Venera probes are still sitting on the surface of Venus, slowly being crushed and corroded by 900-degree sulfuric acid clouds, and the photographs they sent back in 1975 remain the only images humans have ever taken from the surface of another Space Daily
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