Historic Landing Site
Venera 13
Venera 13 is currently about 44,653,891 kilometres from Earth, or 0.298 astronomical units, which puts a one-way radio signal 2.5 minutes out. It is 0.726 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
- 44,653,891 km (0.298 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 108,593,534 km (0.726 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 2.5 minutes
The mission
- Status
- Historical
- Operator
- Soviet Union
- Launched
- 1981
- Operating
- Venus