Behold the Clearest picture ever taken on the Surface of Venus. But how come about this image?
On November 4th, 1981, the Soviet Union launched the Venera 14 to conduct a Fly/Lander mission on Venus. The spacecraft was launched atop a Proton-K/D-1 rocket and it successfully landed on Venus on March 5th, 1982.
After the Venera-14 lander successfully landed on the surface of Venus, it worked for 57 minutes, managing to capture a color panorama of the surrounding area. Four decades later, this panorama still remains the last image ever taken from the surface of Venus that is available to scientists.
If you want to learn about all the space missions humans have launched to Venus and possible future mission, check out this blogpost.
These beautifully real images are some of the closest images of Jupiter. Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the Sun. The original image was captured by JunoCam, the camera on NASA's Juno mission in orbit around Jupiter. This image was taken on Juno's 22nd close pass by Jupiter on Sept. 12, 2019 with image processing done by Prateek.