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Every picture from Venus' surface, ever (2021)


In 1975 and 1982, four of the Soviet Union’s Venera probes captured our only images of Venus’ surface.

The world next door doesn’t make it easy, with searing heat and crushing pressure that quickly destroy any lander. They revealed yellow skies and cracked, desolate landscapes that were both alien and familiar—views of a world that may have once been like Earth before experiencing catastrophic climate change. Ted Stryk, a philosophy professor at Roane State Community College in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, specializes in reconstructing images from early space missions.

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