List of missions to Venus - Wikipedia
WEBThere have been 46 (including gravity-assist flybys) space missions to the planet Venus. Missions to Venus constitute part of the exploration of Venus. The Soviet Union followed by the United States have soft landed probes on the surface.
Here's every successful Venus mission humanity has ever launched
WEBSep 18, 2020 · The Soviet Union's Veneras 9 and 10 each sent successful orbiters and landers to Venus. Venera 9 made a successful landing on Oct. 22, 1975 while Venera 10 alighted on the surface a day later.
Observations and explorations of Venus - Wikipedia
WEBThe first successful landing on Venus was by Venera 7 on December 15, 1970 — the first successful soft (non-crash) landing on another planet, as well as the first successful transmission of data from another planet’s surface to Earth.
Every picture from Venus' surface, ever | The Planetary Society
WEBOnly 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.
Every mission to Venus ever | The Planetary Society
WEBVenus was one of the first planets to be visited by spacecraft from Earth. Probes do not last long on its surface, where the atmosphere is 50 times denser than Earth's and temperatures are hot enough to melt lead. Orbital studies hint that Venus may have hosted habitable oceans before becoming inhospitable.
Venera - Wikipedia
WEBThe Venera (Russian: Вене́ра, pronounced [vʲɪˈnʲɛrə] 'Venus') program was a series of space probes developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather information about the planet Venus.
Venus: Exploration - Science@NASA
WEBNov 9, 2017 · Dozens of spacecraft have launched to explore Venus, but not all have been successful. NASA's Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to visit any planet beyond Earth when it flew past Venus on Dec. 14, 1962. NASA is planning two new missions to Venus: VERITAS, and DAVINCI.
Venera 13 and the Mission to Reach Venus | Space
WEBMar 25, 2019 · Venera 13, a Soviet spacecraft, was the first lander to transmit color images from the surface of Venus. Although other landers arrived before and after it, pictures from Venera 13 are more...
Landings on Venus - Universe Today
WEBAug 4, 2009 · Venera 9 landed on the surface of Venus on October 22, 1975 and operated on the surface of Venus for 53 minutes. It sent back the first images ever captured from the surface of Venus.
DAVINCI MISSION - ssed.gsfc.nasa.gov
WEBAfter exploring the top of Venus’s atmosphere and the composition of a mountainous region known as Alpha Regio, DAVINCI will drop its probe to the surface in 2031. Made of titanium, one of the world’s strongest metals, the spherical probe is …