Real Images From Venus: What We Actually Saw There
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Published 2023-09-13
Venus has long remained an enigmatic sister planet to Earth— seemingly similar in size, yet covered in clouds of sulfuric acid that betray the volatile world lurking beneath. While Mars, Jupiter, and even far-flung Pluto have opened their secrets to robotic spacecraft from Earth, Venus remains the least explored of our planetary neighbors. Often termed Earth's "evil twin,” Venus hosts crushing atmospheric pressures, scorching temperatures that could melt lead, and skies filled perpetually with dense clouds that don’t even let a ray of sunlight touch the surface. This combination creates a planet so hostile that it has destroyed every probe sent to explore its surface; some lasted mere minutes before surrendering to the planet’s wrath.
So, what views did we see beneath the thick cloud cover shrouding the planet? What do they tell us about the past of the Earth’s evil twin? Finally, and most importantly, what secrets will the upcoming Indian, American, and European missions to Venus reveal?
Created By: Rishabh Nakra
Written By: Simran Buttar
Narrated By: Brian Pederson
All Comments (21)
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When we aren't trying to kill each other and the planet, mankind has accomplished some truly incredible achievements.
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The Soviets really did some remarkable space exploration when it comes to Venus
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Going from Earth’s Sister Planet to Earth’s Evil Twin is wild! 💀😂
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I really wish we could get orbital probes to Uranus and Neptune. Venus is cool, but I find those ice moons more interesting.
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I went to Venus a couple of times back in my younger days when I was doing acid
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I remember scientists in the 1950s theorizing Venus being an ocean of carbonated water and even a swampy environment. Scientists in the very early days With the Mariner Flyby didn’t think cameras results justified their weight. They were all about the data and chemical compositions.
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What amazes me as much as the missions themselves, is that I was alive to see each of them. Before Mariner 2, I remember not knowing whether Venus was a desert world beneath the clouds, or covered in lush jungles.
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Did he just tacitly say that Pluto is still a planet? Go you go boy!
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The "killer issue" with Venus landers is the 460C surface temp. It's hotter outside the lander than is insider.
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Very impressed with this video. I have always been interested in astronomy and physics. It was things like this that drove me to enter those professions. Thank you for feeding my insatiable curiosity about the universe and the wonders that we discove
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The first probe that touched down on Venus lasted 12 minutes before collapsing under the immense pressure and super high temperature. The next one lasted just under an hour unlock Mercury that gets 750 ° on the daytime side and -300 on the night side Venus hovers around 880 2900 degrees night or day Venus revolves very slowly as its day is longer than its year.
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Always nice to see the broadening of our knowledge through missions to other planets.
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Where’s the Snow and crazy Mushrooms? Warframe lied to me.
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colour pics of Venus in 1982...didn't tell us that on the news in my country. in fact i only discovered it thru youtube few years ago !
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This is an excellent documentary.
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Clever to put an ad right before playing sound recording of Venus.
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It's actually pretty amazing that the probes lasted any time at all as the surface of the planet is so hot the rocks glow red. The planet is so hot it would almost instantly melt lead. Now if they produced floating microbes several miles up the atmosphere is a 70° f which is a Paradise.
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I've always been interested in Venus. Very enjoyable and informative. Thank you for sharing this video.
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The sound was interesting from a probe and the pictures were great from different probes thank you
