18 October 1967
First Direct Venus Measurements
The achievement marks first direct venus measurements as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Venus in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The achievement marks first direct venus measurements as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Leads spacecraft design for the first probe returning direct measurements from Venus.
Venera 5 returns atmospheric measurements while descending through the clouds of Venus before pressure destroys the probe.
Venera 6 transmits pressure, temperature and composition measurements during descent through the Venusian atmosphere.
Venera 7 makes the first successful soft landing on Venus and the first survivable landing on another planet.
Venera 7 continues transmitting after touchdown, returning the first data directly from the surface of another planet.
Venera 8 lands on Venus and transmits surface measurements for about fifty minutes.
The achievement marks first images from venus as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Supports the planetary programme that lands Venera 9 on Venus.
Venera 10 lands successfully on Venus and returns measurements from the hostile surface environment.
Venera 10 returns panoramic black-and-white images from Venus, extending the first photographic survey of the planet's surface.
Venera 12 descends through the Venusian atmosphere and transmits scientific measurements from the surface.
Venera 11 reaches Venus and returns atmospheric and surface measurements after a successful descent.
Venera 13 returns colour panoramas of the Venusian surface and analyses nearby soil.
Venera 13 lands on Venus and begins an exceptionally productive surface science session.
Venera 14 lands on Venus and returns further images and direct measurements of surface material.
Venera 15 enters Venus orbit and begins high-resolution radar mapping of the planet's northern hemisphere.
Venera 16 joins Venera 15 in radar mapping northern Venus through its permanently opaque cloud cover.
Vega 1 releases a balloon that drifts through Venus's cloud layer while measuring winds and atmospheric conditions.
Vega 2 deploys a second balloon into Venus's atmosphere, providing additional measurements of cloud-level circulation.
Provenance
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