Venera: The Incredible Probe that the Soviets Sent to Venus

If you believe Venus was once a planet covered in forests and jungle and was ruined by runaway greenhouse gasses, i have some beachfront property in AZ for sale.

Uhh - Sputnik was about as Russian as borscht or the hamburger - The technology that sent the radio signal from the hunk of metal going around the planet was not invented in Russia. The technology behind the rocket that got it into space was perhaps at best 10% Russian. Dr. Goddard (American), the V2 rocket (German), and then a little bit of extra science (probably from Ukrainia - same as where their borscht came from) is how that happened.

Sure am glad we found that out before some genius invested billions in a resort

We need another space race…

Little known but one of the probes sent back an audio recording of the surface (you can find it online) and its absolutely facinating to listen to

I remember Venera because the Six Million Dollar Man based an episode on it? I think? I was a kid okay.

Next time in the morning if you see very bright star near the sun, just remember that several pieces of russian metal junk lie there, as in your nearest garbage dump. Brings me weird thoughts

The Soviets can land on another World.
But can't grow enough food for their Humans........

@megaprojects9649 - I'm surprised this video has no index in its' description.

U actually believe what these commie marxists say?? 😆😆😅

"The pre-digital age"--? Turn off the precious electricity for a month and see what's left of 'today'.

You have to give Russia credit they landed a probe on Venus well before the US landed on Mars.

35 miles up from the surface of Venus is the most welcoming climate for humans: 70-90 degree F at 1 athmosphere of pressure and shielded from radiation at 0.9 the Earth's gravity. And any baloon with nitrogen and oxygen at 1 athmosphere will float in that air. A cloud city would do the trick...

Those darn Venusians. Their cars and carbon fuel based economy created globull warming and doomed their planet. If only they had a Greta Thunberg to shame them into green energy.

Actually Venera 11 and 12 lens caps did release, its what they saw that made them classify and the pictures and the audio from landers. Due to Venus spinning so slowly, all the larger lifeforms stay in the darkness and travel with the night. These lifeforms are 100% alien to anything we know of. There blood would be acidic like the xenomorphs and breathe supercritical co2. Imagine deep underground caves where the temperature is still the same but safe from the dangers of Radiation from the sun, hellish beast exist . Like the movie pitch black. We have wanted to find literal alien life that is almost unfathomable that it exist cause it differs so much to our understanding of life, we are so fortunate as to have a planet next door to show us what is possible. This knowledge gained will prepare us for whatever we may encounter later.

Can’t wait till the Venetians dig up the probe

Great informational video

By using resources on the planet and heat, pressures to have our probes
to survive hostile environments.

you sound like your lips are getting tangled up

The Soviets did something besides trying to blow everyone up. Admirable. Lol.

OMG I had no idea!!!😮😮😮

The Soviets wanted to one up the Americans by landing on Venus, but once they saw what it was really like it was a case of, “Well so much for that idea.”

It seems not worth it to go back so many times. But cool achievements.

Venus may have been like earth what unscientific drivel

Soviet scientists are the bestest

The Reds really made some significant achievements with the Venus probes back in the 1970s. Its really amazing considering the harsh environment in which almost nothing can survive... the closest we can get to this today is leaving your car parked in Oakland.

Imagine how embarrassing it must have been for the Russians that the lens cap did not come off 💀

How were they able to capture and transmit digital images in 1960s??

Isn't it funny how we never have anyone claiming the Soviets never landed on Venus, and the Venera photos were all faked? Why is that I wonder..?

Motormouth Whistler has gone from warp 5 to warp 6. Someone given him a lude or take away his amphetamines!

Amazing

The Soviets were amazing competitors in the space race. I like how much respect nasa and the soviets had for eachother over the common ground of science

Thank you very much for this interesting and well made video.

Just one remark: I do not think the Russians did think in Imperial units 😀 Also most of the scientific folks nowadays do not. You could contribute to and rise up to the overall common scientific level giving SI units first place 🙃
JustMy2Cents

1966 and I had no idea

Every time i hear about Venus being hotter than the melting point of lead, I'm grateful that scientists decided not to make the spacecraft out of lead. Good call 👍

That probes melted after 30 min temp 465 c big pressure maybe in future nasa have rover who will drive two days on venus

Americans are from Mars; Russians from Venus

More impressive than landing on mars or the moon imo. Better get on it nasa and land on saturn or something.

Unlike the moon landing, this actually happened!

If it wasn't for the Russians we would know nothing about Venus. Like we would know a little bit. But it was the Russians that gathered all the data. So that credit goes all to them

This has been a grossly underrated feat and mostly because of the ideological-political war of back then and also because it was non-American.

Moon landing grofl 😂

The man-made robot managed to survive on the surface of Venus at a temperature of 460°C and a pressure of 92 atmospheres of the Earth for 2 hours and transmitted sound, photographs and soil samples.

I could listen to Simon talk about literally ANYTHING

I can't explain it but the way it looks makes me feel so creeped out, it's a very eary feeling

Always fascinating to see surface of another world.

Wait it's only been like this for 300 million years? I've always thought the Carboniferous was interesting but now when I imagine it I have to remember we may not have been the only planet with water/life in the solar system. We may have been more alien then our closest planet.

Capitalism or Communism idgaf......regardless of political ideologies there were insane brilliant and hardworking people on both sides who made these remarkable scientific achievements possible i have as much respect for the Soviet Cosmos program as NASA...wish their Moon landing program also worked imagine American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts shaking hands on Lunar surface just like Apollo Soyuz on 1975...that wud be epic❤‍🔥❤‍🔥❤‍🔥