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.

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.

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.

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.

RF2G1FF94 – Digital Illustration of Venus, the hot, volcanic planet in high resolution

Mar 10, 2015 · From earthbound optical telescopes, the surface of Venus is shrouded beneath thick clouds made mostly of carbon dioxide. To penetrate this veil, probes like NASA’s Magellan spacecraft use radar to reveal remarkable features of …

Nov 27, 2024 · Of course, in between, as Venus moves around to Earth's side of the Sun, it shows an increasing apparent daimeter and decreasing phase. Now, it is gibbous and ~ 70% illuminated, which is an ideal combination in terms of the planet's proximity, size and the percentage of the lit side that we can see.

Four Views of Venus (High Pass Filter) Full Resolution: TIFF (790.9 kB) JPEG (144.2 kB) 1996-01-29: Venus: Galileo: Near Infrared Mapping Spectrometer: 1000x1000x3 ... Infrared Image of Low Clouds on Venus Full Resolution: TIFF (391.4 kB) JPEG (42.72 kB) 1996-02-01: Venus: Magellan: Imaging Radar: 1880x1504x3: PIA00216: Venus ...

Mar 9, 2015 · From earthbound optical telescopes, the surface of Venus is shrouded beneath thick clouds made mostly of carbon dioxide. To penetrate this veil, probes like NASA’s Magellan spacecraft use radar to reveal remarkable features of …

Venus This global view of Venus was created using images from NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft. It is intended to look approximately natural in color, though the use of the ultraviolet images makes cloud patterns more visible than they would be to the human eye.