Historic Landing Site
Venera 7
Venera 7 is currently about 88,222,285 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 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
- 88,222,285 km (0.590 AU)
- Distance from the Sun
- 108,917,401 km (0.728 AU)
- One-way signal time
- 4.9 minutes
The mission
- Status
- Historical
- Operator
- Soviet Union
- Launched
- 1970
- Operating
- Venus