We see a lot of Mars lately, so here’s the surface of Venus from Venera 14 of the USSR

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Pparadela on June 6th, 2021 at 22:59 UTC »

According to Wikipedia: "The lander functioned for at least 57 minutes (the planned design life was 32 minutes) in an environment with a temperature of 465 °C (869 °F) and a pressure of 94 Earth atmospheres (9.5 MPa)."

What an absolute beast of a machine.

LJ_Wanderer on June 7th, 2021 at 01:02 UTC »

This was the best Soviet space mission. Very impressive even by today's standards.

j_la on June 7th, 2021 at 02:52 UTC »

We see a lot of Mars lately

It’s wild that this is now a mundane thing to say.