Rock plates, soil and a piece of the craft appear in the image. This landscape has not been reconstructed for a film. On March 1, 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander transmitted views from the surface of Venus. The NASA archive sheet assigns him two hours and seven minutes of ground operation.
The color panorama was obtained with blue, green and red filters. Its interpretation, however, requires a precaution: the Venusian atmosphere modifies the light received and allows little blue to reach the surface. The hues of the image are therefore not read as simply as those of a photograph taken under familiar terrestrial lighting.
An object visible in the foreground brings an additional detail: it is a camera cover deposited by the lander. It is not a mysterious local vestige. This scene thus associates the terrain of another world with a piece abandoned by our instrument. A short presence on the ground was enough to leave lasting images.
What we know
Colors also depend on lighting and image processing.
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