Surface of Planet Venus: March 1982 | Soviet Union's Venera 14 Robotic Lander

Surface of Planet Venus: March 1982 | Soviet Union's Venera 14 Robotic Lander

Surface of Planet Venus: March 1982 | Soviet Union's Venera 14 Robotic LanderIf you could stand on Venus—what would you see? Pictured is the view from Venera 14, a robotic Soviet lander that parachuted and air-braked down through the thick Venusian atmosphere in March 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 pen…