Our first interplanetary landing was on Venus, not Mars (Image by the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Venera 7 landed on Venus on the 17th of August 1970 while Mars 3 landed on Mars on the 28th of may 1971. Both by the Soviet Union (I DO NOT SUPPORT COMMUNISM)
According to [this](https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-surface-ever) the Venera 7 crash landed and while it did send data back to Earth, it wasn’t this picture. From the same site, it looks like this image actually came from Venera 13 which was in 1982. I’ve never seen these images before so thanks for that. Side note, what does whether or not you support communism have to do with anything?
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According to [this](https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-surface-ever) the Venera 7 crash landed and while it did send data back to Earth, it wasn’t this picture. From the same site, it looks like this image actually came from Venera 13 which was in 1982. I’ve never seen these images before so thanks for that. Side note, what does whether or not you support communism have to do with anything?