The Soviet Venera 13 lander parachuted through the sulphuric acid clouds of Venus in March 1982 and touched down in a landscape hot enough to melt lead, transmitted the first colour photographs of the surface for 127 minutes before the pressure crushed it, and along the way recorded the wind — the only audio anyone has ever captured from another planet's surface
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The Soviet Venera 13 lander parachuted through the sulphuric acid clouds of Venus in March 1982 and touched down in a landscape hot enough to melt lead, transmitted the first colour photographs of the surface for 127 minutes before the pressure crushed it, and along the way recorded the wind — the only audio anyone has ever captured from another planet's surface
On 1 March 1982, a Soviet lander named Venera 13 fell through the sulphuric acid clouds of Venus, deployed a parachute it would soon discard, and set down on a basalt plain at about 7.5 degrees south latitude in the eastern reaches of Phoebe Regio. It was built to last 32 minutes on a surface at roughly 457 degrees Celsius — hot enough to melt lead, which liquefies at 327. It lasted 127. In those two hours and seven minutes it drilled the ground…
In March 1982, the Soviet probe Venera 13 landed on Venus, according to NASA's archive sheet. The machine operated for more than two hours on the ground, while its designers granted it only half an hour. No other aircraft has ever held on this burning ground, crushed by an atmosphere of a density difficult to conceive. Forty-four years later, this Soviet probe still provides the bulk of what we know about the Venetian landscape. Venus destroys e…
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