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

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

God, please strike me down.
 
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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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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.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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