WTF I had no idea we landed on Venus back in '82.

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Zeze

Zeze

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With all the fuss about the recent Mars landing, I thought it was a great feat since the manned moon landing.

Venus almost as far as Mars from Earth. Venus is 38 million km when closest to Earth. Mars is 50-70 million km.

And both US and Soviet landed on Venus numerous times wayyyy back starting from late 70's.

In 1983, Soviet Venera 13 sent back pictures while surviving the 860 F heat for couple hours.

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Pretty awesome. Freakin' news to me, and I'm sure same goes for your average populace.
 
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JulesMaximus

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I should die for posting this... seriously. There is no excuse. I am worthless scum.

God, please strike me down.
 
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Jeff7

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Yeah...but the Mars rovers lasted a tiny bit longer. (Years, rather than minutes or hours.)


And I don't think the US ever landed on Venus, at least not anything functional.



Oh, and Curiosity is a big mobile thing, with the ability to ablate small sections of rock, drill into it, and then deliver the powdered remains into an onboard laboratory - also a pretty impressive feat.
 
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nsafreak

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Jeff7 said:
Yeah...but the Mars rovers lasted a tiny bit longer. (Years, rather than minutes or hours.)


And I don't think the US ever landed on Venus, at least not anything functional.



Oh, and Curiosity is a big mobile thing, with the ability to ablate small sections of rock, drill into it, and then deliver the powdered remains into an onboard laboratory - also a pretty impressive feat.
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Actually the US did land a couple of probes on Venus as part of the Pioneer program back in 1978.
 
Jeff7

Jeff7

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nsafreak said:
Actually the US did land a couple of probes on Venus as part of the Pioneer program back in 1978.
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Yeah, I'm seeing that now. The page used the phrase "survived after impact" though, so it sounds like "landing" may not have been the primary goal.
 
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jagec

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You don't remember learning about the Viking program? We've been to Mars before as well.
 
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pmv

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I'm surprised you are surprised! I remember hearing about the Viking landers on Mars when I was a child, which would be (from unreliable memory, without consulting wiki!) around 1975 maybe?

Though landing on Venus is kind of more impressive, I think, because its such a hugely hostile environment compared to Mars.
 
StrangerGuy

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Makes me sad when we can do these cool stuff instead we have people spending X trillions on wars or entire lifetimes not questioning a religious book.
 
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Craig234

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Ya, this was back when our government still did things, before every bit of our economy doubling went to the few most rich, and we need 'austerity' instead. Great stuff.
 
Dumac

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The Mars rovers are unlike landings on venus or titan in that they are controllable machines instead of just probes hard-wired to send back data on descent.

Getting image feed from MSL and being able to tell it where to go is much more accident to me.
 
sandorski

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The Soviets landed a probe in the US in 1977. If it were not for one man's heroism, y'all would be dead.
 
BoomerD

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We established a colony on Venus in the mid-80's...but global thermonuclear war ended that experiment.

Everyone knows this.
 
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