These Images Explain Why Venera Went Silent on Venus | 4K

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Writer(s): Jon McColgan/ Ross McDonald
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#astrum #astronomy #Space #venus #solarsystem #planets

[BeyerEfendi]

I don't believe it's possible to ever get over the fact that we have pictures of the surfaces of other planets. That is insane. You're looking at the surface of another bloody world. That's that stuff of myth and legend made real. Absolutely incredible.

[deadralynx]

Building, sending AND landing a probe on Venus with 1960/70s tech was an engineering and mathematical milestone.

[paulbennett]

I still maintain that landing on the surface of Venus and sending images back to Earth is the single most impressive achievement of space science.

[modalmixture]

When I first saw those eerie yellow Venera images as a kid, I became captivated by Venus. Sometimes it is weird to think about these exotic, faraway places actually existing, without any humans to witness them, until suddenly you see an image of an actual rock and there it is. The fact that we have these images at all - including that spectacular global radar map from Magellan - is an amazing testament to human ingenuity.

[ChrisM-tnhx]

For anyone interested, 100 m/s winds is 360 Kph, or 223.7 Mph.

[philipanthonylebanno]

Dude i seriously can't wrap my mind that I'm looking at the ground on another planet. It's just rocks and dirt, but it's so strange, and it's endlessly fascinating

[rampy]

When I was a kid (1960ish), my parents bought a set of books about various science topics, including one about the planets. In that book, they speculated that Venus was probably a lush, green, tropical paradise. They also mentioned the canals of Mars. This same set of books also covered dinosaurs, where they discussed the Brontosaurus, saying that its brain was so tiny that it barely knew it was alive. Oh boy, the things we didn't know back then! Very interesting video, Astrum.

[DrakoCrowley]

The Venera spacecraft and their missions are some of the most significant astronomical discoveries to ever come out of the USSR. Hats off to them.

[AnotherAngelDown]

Venus has that Breaking Bad Mexico filter.

[HellOnWheel]

Imagine if an advanced lifeform on Venus studied Earth and concluded that there isn't enough sulphuric acid in our atmosphere to support life.

[WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT]

Before the Venera probe we had absolutely no idea.
There was a theory it was covered in swamps containing dinosaurs.

[JohnnyNiteTrain]

15 trips to Venus in 7 years is wild. So many space missions in that era. We've had some great ones in recent years for sure. Cassini, Rovers etc, but wow did they have so many so frequently back then

[eekee]

When the very calm before the storm is sulfuric acid...

[immagical]

12:17 this image is astonishing to me because not only is this an image of VENUS, a planet alien to us and completely lifeless, it was also taken with technology that is now extremely outdated

[creativedoof]

Venera went silent because it was probably being slowly boiled into molten metal slag by the Venusian high temperature, or it was being slowly crushed like a beer can by the high Venusian atmospheric pressure.

One or both outcomes could have happened as Venera was transmitting data and images of the planet to Earth.

[douggoins]

It still blows my mind that we are soo far from the sun yet it still warms our planet so much. I can only imagine how hot mercury and venus must be

[josephnash]

I was born in 1960. When I was a boy, I believed entirely in the older view of Venus as a humid, swampy planet similar to Earth in the Carboniferous period. The discovery of the Hell-like climate of the actual planet was one of the greatest disappointments of the Space age for me, Oh Well! Not all knowledge brings joy.

[Beryllahawk]

I think my favorite imaginary possibility is the "floating life band" notion: that life might exist in a relatively narrow band within the atmosphere, a "sweet spot" that isn't too hot, too cold, OR too acidic. Someone had an illustration of flying cities even, habitats like immense bubbles that would be buoyant in the upper atmosphere, mining the clouds for various compounds. People could live in such places, protected from the sulfuric acid. Though exactly what valuable compounds would justify such a huge undertaking is where that idea breaks, haha! It's still a great mental image. Cloud City, in real life!

[mfaizsyahmi]

8:46 The obligatory "hot enough to melt lead" quote

[Voidwalker]

Earth could have easily been much more similar to Venus if early earth life like cyanobacteria behaved differently, something like the great dying could have been life's end but life found a way.
Life on Venus seems beyond unlikely, but with the constant discovery of extremophiles we can't rule it out, keeps it interesting.