Old Soviet Venus (surface) images + other goodies

[luka]

I stumbled across this wonderful site with old Soviet space exploration images from the 60s, 70s and 80s and I thought I'll share it here.

Amongst my favourites are the images of Venus surface from their Venera probes.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Very cool site.

[Kunama]

Thanks for posting this Luka. Fantastic images, first saw some of the lunar images on TV in Finland in the 1960s.

[LewisM]

Yes, I love those images - I found them a couple years ago (cannot remember which site now), and my wife was duly proud

[edwardsdj (Doug)]

Thanks for posting this. I found this site a few months ago after seeing some images of the surface of Venus that I hadn't seen before on a documentary.

It's a shame the Soviets didn't make all the raw data available at the time like the Americans do these days. It is a similar story with the recent Chinese Moon missions. Unless someone is aware of somewhere where this is available?