[wainstead]

The Soviets succeeded in returning surface images from a number of their landers, and the photos are quite tantalizing.

http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

"Venus Revealed" is a pretty good read:

https://www.amazon.com/Venus-Revealed-Clouds-Mysteriious-Pla...

[ndiscussion → wainstead]

very cool, thanks for sharing