Like Venus’s classic portrait, most of the pictures of planets and other astronomical objects that you’ve seen, in textbooks or on NASA websites, are not natural-color views.

NASA. In the early 1970s, NASA sent Mariner 10 past Venus. In 1974, the probe returned the first close-up image of the planet. In this image, Venus has been color-enhanced to show what it would ...

Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft captured this false-color image of Venus' dayside on March 30, 2018. The planet's atmosphere spins faster than its surface; compared to Earth, Venus twirls at a ...

A false-color view of Venus taken by Japan’s Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter in 2018. ... In 1978, a NASA spacecraft, Pioneer Venus, dropped four probes in the planet’s atmosphere.

Most missions have observed Venus from afar, as the planet's climate is hot enough to melt lead. Take a look at some of the best images ever captured of the "evil twin" planet.

The Facts. It is true that the image really does show the surface of Venus from the perspective of the Venera-13 lander—a Soviet-built spacecraft that landed on Venus' surface on March 1, 1982 ...

Venus, the second-closest planet to the sun, has the solar system’s hottest temperatures among planets. Venera 13 took almost two dozen color and black-and-white panoramic photographs of Venus ...

This false-color ultraviolet image of the south pole of Venus was obtained by the Venus Monitoring Camera onboard The European Space Agency's Venus Express on Feb. 25, 2008 from a distance of ...