This image [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] is part of the first color panoramic view from Venus [ http://www.nineplan…]. A TV camera on the Soviet Venera 13 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] lander that parachuted to the surface on 1982 March 1 transmitted it. Venus' [ http://sseforum.jpl…] clouds are composed of sulfuric acid [ http://scifun.chem.…] droplets while its surface temperature is about 482 degrees Celsius [ http://www.astro.uu…] at an atmospheric pressure of 92 times that of sea-level [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] on Earth. Despite these harsh conditions, the Venera [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] 13 lander survived long enough to send back a series of images and perform an analysis of the Venusian soil [ http://adsabs.harva…]. Part of the lander itself is visible in the lower right portion of the image. An earlier Soviet [ http://memory.loc.g…] Venus lander, Venera 7 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] (1970), was the first spacecraft to return data from the surface of another planet.
Explanation
This image [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] is part of the first color panoramic view from Venus [ http://www.nineplan…]. A TV camera on the Soviet Venera 13 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] lander that parachuted to the surface on 1982 March 1 transmitted it. Venus' [ http://sseforum.jpl…] clouds are composed of sulfuric acid [ http://scifun.chem.…] droplets while its surface temperature is about 482 degrees Celsius [ http://www.astro.uu…] at an atmospheric pressure of 92 times that of sea-level [ http://antwrp.gsfc.…] on Earth. Despite these harsh conditions, the Venera [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] 13 lander survived long enough to send back a series of images and perform an analysis of the Venusian soil [ http://adsabs.harva…]. Part of the lander itself is visible in the lower right portion of the image. An earlier Soviet [ http://memory.loc.g…] Venus lander, Venera 7 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.n…] (1970), was the first spacecraft to return data from the surface of another planet.
