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Astronomy Picture of the Day - The Surface of Venus from Venera 14
NASA ^
| 11 May, 2025
| Image Credit: Soviet Planetary Exploration Program, Venera 14; Processing & Copyright: Donald Mitche
Posted on 05/11/2025 12:03:21 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: If you could stand on Venus -- what would you see? Pictured is the view from Venera 14, a robotic Soviet lander which parachuted and air-braked down through the thick Venusian atmosphere in March of 1982. The desolate landscape it saw included flat rocks, vast empty terrain, and a featureless sky above Phoebe Regio near Venus' equator. On the lower left is the spacecraft's penetrometer used to make scientific measurements, while the light piece on the right is part of an ejected lens-cap. Enduring temperatures near 450 degrees Celsius and pressures 75 times that on Earth, the hardened Venera spacecraft lasted only about an hour. Although data from Venera 14 was beamed across the inner Solar System over 40 years ago, digital processing and merging of Venera's unusual images continues even today. Recent analyses of infrared measurements taken by ESA's orbiting Venus Express spacecraft indicate that active volcanoes may currently exist on Venus.
TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
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posted on
05/11/2025 12:03:36 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
05/11/2025 12:04:28 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
05/11/2025 12:09:16 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: MtnClimber
That’ll be the earth in 5,000,000,000 A.D.
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posted on
05/11/2025 12:13:08 PM PDT
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Savage Beast
(There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
To: MtnClimber
Not exactly how science fiction writers have pictured it.
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posted on
05/11/2025 12:18:06 PM PDT
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fidelis
(Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
To: fidelis
You can tell that women are from Venus because all of the sand has been obsessively vacuumed away. There are not any smelly boots anywhere to be seen. Elon may be right about Mars.
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posted on
05/11/2025 12:26:49 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
"pressures 75 times that on Earth"
Every source I've ever seen says it's about 90, or 92 bar specifically. Maybe they don't know for certain and that is just an estimate.
To: MtnClimber
Kinda’ looks like Detroit.
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posted on
05/11/2025 1:08:29 PM PDT
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Bullish
(I've never seen such morons... Have you?)
To: Bullish
Kinda’ looks like Detroit. That would be a welcome change from Arizona.
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posted on
05/11/2025 1:11:11 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
05/11/2025 1:19:56 PM PDT
by
Fledermaus
("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
To: Fledermaus
I see Venetian litter It could be hoarding of shoes and clothes.
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05/11/2025 1:32:57 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
Stand on Venus and be crushed and burned to death at the same instant. Lovely.
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posted on
05/11/2025 2:34:26 PM PDT
by
JPG
(XRP to the moon.)
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posted on
05/11/2025 3:08:15 PM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
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posted on
05/11/2025 3:39:36 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: Savage Beast
”Unless....”
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05/11/2025 4:05:26 PM PDT
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gundog
(The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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posted on
05/11/2025 7:59:48 PM PDT
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Savage Beast
(There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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