'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/
