images from VENUS is VENERA in RUSSIA

While others focused on our moon, Luna, and Mars, during the 1960s & 70s
Russia was infatuated with Venus. Venus is covered with clouds and methane seas, lakes and a few rivers. Atmosphere is so dense that it crushes object like deep sea water pressure. The temperature hovers around 900ºF plus or minus a few hundred degrees. These are the first and only photographic images taken of and on the surface, known. The teeth on the probe were designed to slow descent.