Venus surface panorama from Venera 13 front camera The Soviet Union's Venera 13 probe captured two color panoramas of Venus's surface in 1982. This panorama came from the front camera. Image: Russian Academy of Sciences / Ted Stryk

The probe revealed an atmosphere made almost entirely of carbon dioxide, with temperatures ranging from 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) high up in the atmosphere to 280 degrees Celsius (536 degrees Fahrenheit) closer to the surface, and pressures ranging from 15 to 22 atmospheres.

Jan 16, 2018 · Equatorial region of Venus from Akatsuki Images acquired during orbit number 13 of the Japanese probe Akatsuki show an incredible amount of detail on the equatorial, tropical, and extra-tropical clouds of the planet. Color changes indicate local variations in the amounts of the mysterious ultraviolet absorber and sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere.

The probe will be carried to Venus aboard Rocket Lab’s Photon spacecraft and dropped into the Venusian atmosphere. The data collection phase will last roughly three to five minutes as the probe plummets from a height of 60 to 45 kilometers (37 to 28 miles) — the potentially habitable region where phosphine was detected.

Feb 9, 2022 · Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight. But in two recent flybys of the planet, the Parker Solar Probe used its Wide-Field Imager, or WISPR, to image the entire nightside in wavelengths of the visible spectrum – the type of light that the human eye can see – and extending into the near-infrared.

Venus Express also discovered granite-like rocks across the planet that would likely require abundant liquid water to form, further hinting toward the planet having once had oceans. Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft is the only probe currently orbiting Venus. It studies Venus’ atmosphere and has made several discoveries about the planet's cloud ...

Jun 19, 2024 · The surface of Venus from the Parker Solar Probe On Feb. 9th, 2022, NASA released this image from the Parker Solar Probe, which it took during a flyby of Venus. It is the first confirmed visible light image of the surface of Venus taken from space.

Contact was finally lost with the probe in 2024, and Akatsuki remains in an elliptical orbit that brings it just 400 kilometers (250 miles) from Venus’ surface at its closest, taking about nine days to circle the planet. The mission’s main goal was to …

The DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus) mission, scheduled to launch no earlier than 2031, includes the first probe that will enter Venus’ atmosphere since the Soviet Vega 2 lander in 1984. Its main goal is to investigate how the atmosphere formed and evolved over the last 4.6 billion years.

Venus surface panorama from Venera 14 front camera The Soviet Union's Venera 14 probe captured two color panoramas of Venus's surface in 1982. This panorama came from the front camera. Russian Academy of Sciences / Ted Stryk