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When a Soviet Venera 13 lander touched down on Venus in March 1982, it survived 127 minutes in 465-degree heat and 90 atmospheres of pressure — long enough to photograph orange rock in yellow sky and record the wind — before the acid air ate throu - ScienceBlog.comScienceBlog.com · Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:22:22 GMTStanding on Venus Would Be Like Being 3,000 Feet Underwater at 867°F. Soviet Landers Survived Between 32 and 127 Minutes. - 19FortyFive19FortyFive · Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:12:21 GMTIn 1984 the Soviet Union sent Vega 2 to Venus, where the surface is 900 degrees Fahrenheit under 90 times Earth's pressure, hot enough to melt lead — then released a balloon that drifted for two days high in its clouds. - 19FortyFive19FortyFive · Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:00:00 GMT