The Soviet Union launched nearly 30 spacecraft at Venus and became the only nation ever to land on its surface and send back pictures — color photographs of a scorched volcanic plain under a yellow-green sky, shot in the few dozen minutes before the heat - 19FortyFive
The Soviet Union launched nearly 30 spacecraft at Venus and became the only nation ever to land on its surface and photograph it — color images of a scorched volcanic plain, shot by titanium landers that survived less than an hour each before the planet's hea…
