@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-10-23 18:46:34
50 years (and one day) ago the first images from the surface of another planet reached Earth - not from Mars but from Venus, by the Soviet Union's #Venera 9 lander: https://www.facebook.com/Mercury.3488/posts/pfbid02sEPs9WzQprrJAhPPtEkJfj7jgm65Jzy9995mH5SJtXBHrhHk5tfCTn7hYekmE731l (the image here from https://www.planetary.org/space-images/venus-surface-panorama-from-venera-9 shows a cleaned-up panorama the lander took).
