Historic Landing Site
Venera 7
Venera 7 is currently about 44,654,051 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 first spacecraft to land on another planet and transmit from its surface, in December 1970. It survived Venus’s crushing heat for about 23 minutes.
Proved a surface temperature of about 465 °C and 90 atmospheres of pressure.
Right now
- Distance from Earth
- 44,654,051 km (0.298 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 108,591,169 km (0.726 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 2.5 minutes
The mission
- Status
- Historical
- Operator
- Soviet Union
- Launched
- 1970
- Operating
- Venus