These images show the first time we ever saw the worlds of our Solar System in close-up
In late October 1975, a heavily shielded spacecraft, the Soviet Union’s Venera 9, parachuted into the atmosphere of Venus. Then, having landed, it did something extraordinary: it beamed back the first images ever captured from the surface of another planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The pictures of its baking hot terrain marked a huge leap forward in […]