This footage of Venus was captured by the Soviet Venera missions, the only spacecraft to successfully land and transmit images from Venus’ surface. Despite its proximity to Earth, Venus remains an extreme world of crushing pressure and intense heat. | SpaceEve

On June 12, 1967, Venera 4 was launched into space on a mission to Venus, thus becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's atmosphere. Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/IU4aReO This was a Russian probe designed to study the atmosphere of Venus down to the surface. At first, scientists believed that the probe had transmitted until contact with the surface of Venus. But transmissions had ended at an altitude of 16 miles (or 27 kilometers), when the extreme tem