Neil deGrasse Tyson Just Revealed Declassified Photos From Venus By The Soviet Union!

six five four three two one zero NASA says it's time to prioritize the planet Venus. This follows the recent discovery of possible life on the planet. If you take a look at NASA records from the 1960s, you'll notice that the space agency called Venus a hell planet at the same time Mars became our destination. Such careful labeling of the innermost planets is no coincidence during the turbulent space race of the same era when the Soviet Union was obsessed with sending expensive missions to Venus. The Infernal Planet showed little or nothing. life prospects, however, the Soviet space program did not dismantle the Venera program until the fall of the Empire and thanks to Neil deGrasse Tyson we finally know why join us as we analyze the

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photographs of Venus taken by the Soviet Union the fall of La Soviet Union was dynamic in more ways than one, not only did it change the geopolitical course of the world, but the loss of the Empire also sank many secrets.

It is not unknown that the Soviets had a deep affinity for the government secrets of the most advanced countries. intelligence agency in the world to keep quiet about its possible extraterrestrial contact, the former superpower carries with it numerous mysteries and, believe it or not, before the United States of America took over the majority of planetary efforts in outer space, the Union Soviet was leading the While the Empire has a long history of successful and failed space missions, its greatest fixation was an inner hellish planet, Venus, in the Russian language you would recognize Venus as Venera and hence the later name of the mission it will encompass. from 1961 to 1983.

During the same time, the United States of America was busy sending its mission to the moon, strategically, the Soviets decided to use their resources elsewhere and well, we can't say that the whole obsession with the second planet of our sun is not strange. The Soviets plan to use the planet's surface as a viable and unbeatable military base or were possibly looking to colonize the planet after searching for life forms up there. It's quite difficult to say why the empire was obsessed with the hellish planet since the Soviets. They commissioned these exploratory voyages during the Cold War, they weren't exactly forthcoming with their goals and objectives;

In fact, everything we know about the Venusian missions is due to unarchived and

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evidence, even then it's difficult to determine precisely what the Soviets were looking for and whether they cracked the secret missions because, well, the Empire didn't land on Venus once. , two or three times, that's

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elementary people, the Soviets launched 28 expensive spacecraft to the hellish planet and 13 of them entered the Venusian atmosphere, while eight landed successfully. empire in a leadership position to lead the space exploration initiative, sure the United States of America was also the first, but NASA was more interested in satellites and technological setup than in exploring life on planets, its affection by Mars came later, so your history textbook may not tell you.

You know this, but the Soviet space program was the first agency to send a probe into the atmosphere of a planet other than Earth and has a bunch of other firsts on its resume. In addition, the USSR also became the first state to make a soft landing on another planet. planet, commissioned the first initiative to bring images and sounds from the surface of other planets. Yes, the Soviets had their own one small step for one man, one giant leap for humanity moment that was also long before the US. So how come we rarely get to read about these types of very Landmark missions. rarely remember what we said about the Soviet affinity for keeping secrets well, that's

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one of the many reasons behind the censorship of the Soviet space program in 1992, the popular agency was dismantled after the USSR as the agency had to be revived under her new Russian Ross Cosmos identity, much of her archival data was lost or destroyed.

This is exactly why we don't have a clear answer as to why the Soviets launched 28 spacecraft into the atmosphere of Venus, but we did have to make the most logical assumption: perhaps the Soviet decision to explore Venus was due to the profitability more than anything else. This is not to say that the Space Program was not optimistic about the habitability of the planet; They were looking for a sustainable intensity of the presence of water. of solar radiation and the general temperament of the planet without a series of these space missions it would have been almost impossible to measure the high temperatures and thick atmosphere of Venus, of course, today many cosmologists do not believe that the hellish planet can support life . up there they are high enough to melt lead and well water is scarce, plus, due to its thick atmosphere, the air pressure on Venus is 90 times higher than that of our planet Earth, but this is fairly recent news and modern and without taking into account the contribution of the USSR to the study.

Venus was tantamount to censoring history as far as the Soviets were concerned. Venus was worth exploring, even if it was just to galvanize the space race. You see, exploring more habitable planets like Mars wasn't exactly off the table, but it was more expensive than exploring. On Venus, it all comes down to the distance between planet Earth and any other cosmological body. On average, the hellish planet is only 40 million kilometers from our home, while Mars is on average 250 million kilometers away. Such large differences in distance equate to drastic differences in costs too if these United States of America were not the largest economy in the world, it would not have been easy to explore Mars.

Other rumors in the Bloc also suggest that the Soviet missions were unreliable and had huge technical gaps, apparently the spacecraft was not suitable for covering astronomical distances, plus the agency had a bad track record losing contact with its spacecraft, so Which makes sense why the Soviet space program opted for a shorter, closer transit that would really pay off. If we don't mention the space race in this context the story of the Varina missions would be incomplete: the United States of America wasn't even in the space map when the Soviet program launched the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 in 1957.

This particular maneuver had intensified the geopolitical position between the two competing superpowers the post is World War II the world had recontextualized what it meant to be The Guiding Light in The global community a lucrative throne required any of the superpowers to exert their power on all fronts and space was no exception as the Soviet Union's space program was rapid and successful. US President Dwight Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act in 1958. It sparked the space race. NASA was born. The committee was centralized around American space exploration, but the most important thing is the country's absolute dominance in these two consecutive events. have shaped the cosmological quests we know today, it's also worth noting that both parties involved were obsessed with achieving their historic moment to claim leadership of the space race for what it's worth.

The iconic 1969 moon landing was a major feather in the cap. famous NASA hat even in the past. Then there was a lot of hysteria about the authenticity of the Apollo mission, many Soviet space experts claimed that the United States had orchestrated the landing to aggravate the space struggle and maintain its hegemony, but what was really interesting was why the United States had set its sights on the moon in The first place in Unexplored Territory, other than NASA, had a series of failures with its missions to Venus in the 1960s, so the American space agency found itself in a stalemate called the curse of Venus, each time They launched a probe into the Venusian atmosphere, it went terribly wrong.

It was precisely when the Soviet Union saw the opportunity to capitalize on NASA's failures. At the time, both the US and the USSR were hell-bent on claiming the space race. The most logical adventure was to walk away with two different options. It was a silent agreement. Strategically, the Soviet space program seized Earth's sister planet for the agency, the most important milestone in the space fight was doing something its competitive counterpart had failed to do despite the Empire's limited resources and mismanaged government. , repeatedly sent missions to Venus to find their winning position against the US instead of NASA having seized the Moon mission but of course this strategic partition was not without hostility and propaganda to cover up their colossal failures with Venus, the US agency was encouraged to smear the USSR's fixation with the The planet in Americanized popular media Venus was dubbed the hellish planet while Mars became man's destiny.

These connotations did not matter to the Soviets although their only goal was to show superiority over the Americans and well, they were not successful in doing so. The Venera missions. They are almost forgotten in current history; However, despite their date of appearance, these missions were very sophisticated. Advanced and ambitious. In fact, if we have to choose an event that marked the beginning of the space age, the Venera Explorations will definitely take the lead in the 1950s, the Soviets. They began experimenting with the design and construction of probes and for the next 30 years continued to build and launch interplanetary spacecraft as part of the Venera program.

As the program ran in parallel with the highly turbulent Cold War, the Soviets were obsessed. with optimizing their Fortunately for them, the early years of the war gave them a heavier lifting capacity than the United States of America, which proved to be very beneficial in maximizing their capabilities. The USSR began building and launching larger spacecraft that were designed to maintain high altitudes and great distances, the Soviets rushed to experiment with manned and unmanned spacecraft, at the same time the Soviet space program began using rockets. four stages and advanced telemetry systems that launched their spacecraft to literally new heights, let's not forget that the USSR was leading such Space Expeditions in the 1950s Needless to say, our technological landscape was still coming to terms with the exploration of the outer space and landing on planets that were not Earth.

Exploring the innermost planets was not an easy task, but the USSR was quite persistent with technological advances that were. Hit or miss, but the Empire had created a strong tendency to repeat its mistake in search of better and stronger spaceships, and the thick atmosphere of Venus did not make its job any easier, but the show went on. It was also quite obvious that the Soviet Union was seeking to make a defining statement with its first probe designed for the Venusian atmosphere. Venera won or was sometimes nicknamed Sputnik 8 at the Western Academy. The probe was launched on February 12, 1961, making it the first interplanetary flight of Our Lifetime by Design Venero.

Weighing in at a spectacular 1,400 pounds, which was a testament to Soviet dominance in spacecraft, not long ago, the Soviet space program sparked the space race with its Sputnik 1 satellite, which only weighed 184 pounds, also a massive jump in the scale of the space expedition. As the spacecraft itself was quite impressive, it is no surprise that the US felt threatened by Soviet ambitions in space and by all accounts, Venera 1 was a sight to see. If you were witnessing the launch of the space mission today, you'd quickly notice its strong resemblance to the Daleks from Doctor Who, before getting into the debate over who copied who.

The BBC didn't launch the fictional series until 1963. So, as fun as the theory sounds, no Soviet space program engineer was in love with a Western media product. The resemblance debate aside, Venera 1 was as sophisticated as Doctor whose illusion the probe was spin-stabilized and equipped with sophisticated instruments such as a magnetometer, Geiger counters and micrometeorite detectors according to astronomy.com comma and, as Many of its successors, the interior of the probe was pressurized to little more than one atmosphere with nitrogen gas to help the instruments operate at a stable temperature, such specifications may not seem too lucrative in the current era because, well, we're moving forward. on Mars every day, but the fact that the Soviets were able to whip up a progressive spacecraft with leftovers from the 1950s is undeniably notable, but unfortunately Venera couldn't live up to expectations.

HeThe first attempt to launch the probe was disastrous and, frankly, quite humiliating for the Soviet space mission. In a series of devastating events, the probe did not. Not even making it out of Earth's orbit, the second official attempt to launch Venera 1 occurred on February 12, 1961, and had its ups and downs. Fortunately, the probe passed by Venus in May 1961, becoming the first space mission to accomplish this incredible feat. However, the Soviet space program lost all contact with Venera shortly before the flyby, only landing on the hellish planet, approximately 62,000 miles or one hundred thousand kilometers away, but the probe did not return any data to the Soviets by today's standards, It may be so.

It's convenient to consider Venera one a huge failure after all, it didn't achieve exactly what it was designed to achieve; However, even in a contemporary setting we will give the probe major points for making that risky flight, not to mention that the Soviets were literally sending the spacecraft into the unknown before the successful iterations of the Venera Mission, we had little or no idea about the planet's atmosphere, maybe that's why Venera 2 was not a great success or the probe had a similar design to its predecessor and this mission was also the same, it was supposed to pass by Venus, record critical information about the planet, would transmit it to Earth and return home on November 12, 1965.

Venera 2 was launched into space with optimistic ambitions and the Soviets were pleased to see that the probe had completed its flyby on February 27, 1966. The mission was 15,000 miles or 24,000 kilometers away from Earth's sister planet. The probe hadn't even made its return trip and was already doing better than its predecessor, but then the same old problem hit Venera. 2 also due to a malfunction of the radiator and overheating, the probe also lost its trajectory. On March 4, 1966, the mission was officially declared lost and once again the Soviets were unable to obtain any viable data when it came time to design Venera 3.

Until Venera 6, the Soviets knew they had to solve the overheating problem. By late 1966, the Space Program had dealt with unprecedented temperatures on Venus, so some clarifications here: The first probes were monumental in defining the harsh, rugged terrain of the hellish planet. USSR space engineers had some idea about the modifications they needed to make for their probes to survive the unbearable heat. With Venera 3, the space agency managed to solve the overheating problem. The probe was designed to make a soft landing on the planet's surface to achieve It was a notable feat for the Empire, but instead the mission crashed into the planet, making it another failure for the USSR, even in The turning point of the Cold War and with the Union's financial obstacles mounting, the space agency was determined to make some successful progress in its mission. and well, let's say that perseverance paid off, not in the way that could be considered a success story, although Venera 4 also succumbed to the planet's lethal heat and strong atmospheric pressure but not before doing its job, although the mission spent 90 minutes collecting data for its creators before. gradually transcended the planet's dense atmosphere for the most part the space agency was able to detect very high levels of carbon dioxide in the air space engineers also discovered that the planet had no magnetic field after the slight success of Venera 4 astronomers and Planetary scientists expected the USSR to set its focus elsewhere Elevated levels of greenhouse gases in the air are often a poor measure of habitability To be fair the Soviet Union had not yet gathered resources for other space missions that might have required more interplanetary flights, not just to Venus, but it was almost as if the Soviet space agency was not ready to accept defeat yet.

Over the next few years, the Space Program launched Venera 5 and Venera 6 to mark its monumental success with its ambitious mission. Both probes transmitted data for almost an hour as they parachuted through Venus' thick atmosphere, and well, those 50 minutes of data were a big moment of celebration for the USSR, but they also came with devastating news: the first time Soviet space engineers were able to fully investigate. the atmospheric composition of the infernal planet and although the nickname of infernal planet was a product of American propaganda, it remained true to its characterization, it turned out that Venus is not suitable to host life, its infernal temperature, thick atmospheric pressure and unbreathable air They are no match for their twin planet.

All hopes for the Soviet Union were dashed, but this is where the Soviet obsession with Venus takes an inexplicable and twisted turn, even after gathering enough information about the planet's low habitability that the USSR couldn't let go. his infatuation with Venus isn't enough to take into account here, at least that's what it seems on Outlook, but if declassified Empire documents and Venera

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are anything to go by, you'd see the space agency had a change in their motivations. You see, we don't know exactly when this change occurs, but there is a strong possibility that the Soviets would have stopped searching for life on the planet after Venera 5, mainly because they found a higher purpose there by investigating the existence of astrobiological beings on the planet and What it seems like, the USSR was way ahead of us until 2021, we didn't have a clear idea about Venus and its potential to host life other than just human.

If we had to make a guess, we would say that the Soviets were waiting for the technology to catch up to them. After Venera 7 and Venera 8 made successful landings on the planet, the Space Program took their initiative to a level above all missions to Venusian territory. . Venera 9 to Venera 12 would always have the most. importance in the history of interplanetary interaction these missions despite their ups and downs were able to capture images of the surface of Venus and the Soviets could not be more ecstatic they were no longer interested in creating life on a hellish planet their objectives quickly changed to find life on a planet that had been ruled out by other space agencies of its time, such as NASA, although the United States had sent multiple successful missions to Venus in the 1980s, it was not exactly interested in finding life up there, it is true that NASA had a remarkable comeback with its failed Venus probes.

American missions like Pioneer 12 and the wildly successful McGallon had put NASA in a deep spotlight; However, at the same time the space agency was investing more resources and capital in its extravagant deployment to the Moon, an area where the USSR had failed several times. The Soviet space program still had hopes of finding life forms in the planet's floating clouds. We cannot be sure whether the Soviets were unsuccessful in their mission or not. The success of the Venera probes was widely celebrated by the USSR, but when it came to intricate details, most of their solid findings were swept under the rug due to stagnation. economic from 1975 to 1984. the Empire had to reconfigure its priorities the country was heading towards a total economic collapse and had to give priority to the space race to attend to matters at home it is not surprising that before the dissolution of the USSR the state would have lost a considerable advantage in the space fight running out of extra money was monumental in slowing down the Soviet space program, naturally, the United States took By then, but not before, the Soviets had made considerable progress in interplanetary efforts.

We don't think it's just a big coincidence that more and more scientists are challenging the habitable state of Venus as it stands today. Scientists believe that Venus once had a viable capacity. to host life NASA believes that the hellish planet had ocean water in its distant past, indicating the existence of astrobiological forms of life on Venus, since Venus was formed from ingredients similar to those on Earth, scientists had hopes about the evolutionary path of the planet, it sure was disappointing. that the thick atmospheric layer of the planet trapped a poisonous gas, but the phenomenon is more recent than we think, not to mention that in 2020 NASA also confirmed the presence of phosphine on Venus, this smelly flammable gas floated through the clouds in Venus and, if scientists are right, should have wiped out any life on the planet that depends on oxygen to survive.

It sounds dangerous. Ironically, the presence of a deadly gas on Venus is the strongest biosignature scientists have been looking for. The idea is quite controversial, but as National Geographic points out. says, but phosphine is also produced naturally by some species of anaerobic bacterial organisms that live in oxygen-deprived environments such as landfills, marshes, and even animal guts. To say that no one saw this coming would be a half-lie because for decades the Soviets were obsessed with finding something innovative on Venus, maybe it was just a hunch or maybe the USSR was operating on hard data, but the truth is that it was the first and only space agency in the world to dedicate its resources to exploring the planet.

Near 2022, the presence of phosphine is quite debatable, while a large cohort of planetary scientists believed that the lethal gas is present on the hellish planet, there are also some small discrepancies. This is where Neil deGrasse Tyson becomes a big advocate for the discovery of new habitable planets. Tyson called the discovery groundbreaking in his conversation with astrobiologist David Grinspoon. Neil praised the presence of phosphine on Venus and wants everyone to pay attention to the cause. . You see, we may not be populating Venus anytime soon and the Russians The idea of ​​floating cities in the planet's clouds may sound very ridiculous, but the important thing here is that measuring a planet's ability to support life only through of its atmosphere is a strange and effective idea.

There are many exoplanets that scientists are currently searching to find extraterrestrial life. Our limiting technology and the vastness of space don't allow us to send fast missions to these exoplanets, but if we can make some calculated guesses about a planet's habitability by looking at its atmosphere, then we should take too many risks, at least that's what Tyson believes. Because of this, the discovery of phosphine has begun a new era of astronomical interest on Venus. It will be nearly impossible to live through Venus's poisonous air, but hopefully we can learn more about the planet's history or possible contact with extraterrestrial beings while we're still speculating that we can count on the Soviet missions to give us an advantage as it stands. today.

NASA and other space agencies are still searching for astrobiological life forms on the hellish planet. Declassified

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of the Venera Mission show that the Soviets had found some type. of living organisms during Venera 13 and the old Empire scientists are also opening up about their adventurous times up there. This is where Dr. San Fomaliti, principal investigator and head of the photometry and thermal radiometry laboratory at Space Research, comes into play. Russian Institute and Academy of Sciences Dr. Zanfomaliti also contributed significantly to Venera emissions between the 1970s and 1980s. In their groundbreaking research paper, scientists

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that Venera 13 was able to achieve much more than just a landing. soft on the planet once he returned.

Examining the mission's panoramic images

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three objects that appeared to have characteristics of living organisms from previous decades. These photographs were highly confidential and classified after Russian scientists began to take interest again in the hellish planet, only then were those data put into the spotlight, it is speculated that the Soviets kept the photograph secret and classified because they could not have been risked that the United States would ruin their trajectory and well, the American space agency had more money than its eastern counterpart since they did not want the United States to meddle in their affairs and missions and they kept their Landmark findings to obey, but in reality Venera 13 had successfully landed on Venus at Novka Planitia in the eastern part of Phoebe Reggio in an incredible effort, the mission survived for 127 minutes and returned something of high resolution. and sophisticated images of the planet's surface, the researcher reanalyses the images taken by the v131 and v13 II cameras of Venera 13;

According to his own words, some relatively large objects were found, with sizes ranging from a decimeter to half a meter and with an unusual morphology. HEobserved in some images but were absent in others or altered their shape. Dr. Chan formally discussed three main objects that he was able to observe more closely in the first series of photographers. The researcher analyzes a disk-like creature that was susceptible to changes in heat or pressure, the second creature is a type of black rag that was visible from the probe in the first 13 minutes of the mission, upon a closer look, the black rag It was a vertically elongated black object that appeared alien to Earth in the images taken.

At minutes 27 and 36 of the mission the black cloth disappeared without a trace and finally the Soviets' most prized possession was the discovery of an extraterrestrial scorpion that changed the trajectory of the planet. In the unclassified photos we can see the terrifying creature stuttering across the surface of the hellish planet around the 90th minute of the mission. The v131 camera took a clear image of the Scorpion, whose origins are extraterrestrial or astrobiological. The resurfaced images have shone a new light on Ross. Cosmos the Russian space agency in the new era of space exploration Moscow has stated that Venus is its home planet and by 2029 the country aims to send a conclusive mission to the planet to explore it up close and well, fingers crossed, did you think?

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