Venera 7

The Venera spacecraft 7 (Russian, Венера-7) of the Soviet space program Venera became the first spacecraft to send data from the surface of another planet.

In 1970, the probe made the first controlled landing on the surface of the planet Venus.

Other probes had crashed on the Moon (1959, Lunik 2) and Venus (1966, Venera 3) after sending data during its fall.

It entered the atmosphere of Venus on December 15, 1970 and landed on the surface of the planet at 05:34:10 UTC the same day. The landing coordinates were 5 ° S, 351 ° E.

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