Historic Landing Site
Venera 13
Venera 13 is currently about 88,217,445 kilometres from Earth, or 0.590 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 4.9 minutes out. It is 0.728 astronomical units from the Sun.
The lander that returned the first color photographs of the Venusian surface in March 1982, surviving the furnace-like conditions for a record 127 minutes.
Its panoramas of orange rock under a yellow sky remain the best surface views of Venus.
Right now
- Distance from Earth
- 88,217,445 km (0.590 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 108,918,494 km (0.728 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 4.9 minutes
The mission
- Status
- Historical
- Operator
- Soviet Union
- Launched
- 1981
- Operating
- Venus