'O Venus, beauty of the skies', said Sappho...
Sometimes we forget it, but we have photos of Venus dating back to 1975.
Here's the first photo of Venus' surface taken by the Soviet lander Venera 9 on October 22, 1975
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Computer simulated global view of Venus based on color images recorded by the Soviet Venera 13 and 14 spacecraft
solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/688/
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really cool related thread:
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Through friends in the Russian science community, I was able to get the raw telemetry from Venera-13 and 14. I funded its recovery from old tapes and conversion to TIF format. It consisted of multiple transmissions with considerable noise.
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The item I find people forget, if they ever knew, is that humans have successfully flown a balloon probe through the skies and clouds of Venus.
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