Only four spacecraft have ever sent back images from their surface before being destroyed. The Soviet Union’s Venera probes, launched in 1975 and 1982, took the only photos ever captured from Venus’ ...

The very first visible-light images of Venus' surface from space have been captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe, and it could help researchers piece together the mysteries of the distant planet ...

In this video, we strip away the digital magic, the filters, and the CGI to reveal what Venus really looks like—in all its harsh, alien, and violently active detail. These images are not meant to ...

Venus' Surface Revealed Through Its CloudsVenus is famously hot, due to an extreme greenhouse effect which heats its surface to temperatures as high as 450 degrees Celsius. The climate at the ...

This radar image captured by the Magellan probe shows a region on Venus' surface approximately 180 miles (300 kilometers) across, and located in a vast plain to the south of Aphrodite Terra.

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captures the first visible light images of Venus’ surface from space. That’s a real feat considering that the probe is primarily only using Venus for gravity assist ...

Updated on: May 28, 2024 / 11:21 AM EDT / CBS News Radar images of the surface of Venus appear to show fresh lava flows, suggesting active volcanoes on the planet.

Things may be moving on Venus’ surface. In 1983, researchers discovered that the planet’s surface was speckled with strange, circular landforms. These rounded mountain belts, known as coronae ...

Mostly because Venus is super hot -- its surface averages 887 degrees Fahrenheit. ("Like an oven's self-cleaning cycle," Landis said.) There's no water. Ninety percent of the planet is volcanic flows.

Clearly, we need more measurements and exploration to work out where it comes from. Future missions What we know about Venus so far has been gathered from several past probes. In 1970-82, for example, ...

To understand the deformations in the surface, researchers looked at coronae that are found on Venus. They can be anywhere from dozens to hundreds of miles across, there are hundreds of them on the ...

The planetary meet up between the two brightest planets in our solar system is known as the conjunction and takes place over ...