1970–1985: Solar-System Firsts and Scientific Reach
Venera 13
Returned colour images and in-situ surface analyses from Venus.
Era 2 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- year known only: 1982
- Lead / partner
- Soviet Union
- Target
- Venus
- Category
- Planetary lander
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- unknown
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
Why it happened
Venera 13 flew during 1970–1985: Solar-System Firsts and Scientific Reach, as part of Soviet Union's work toward venus. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Returned colour images and in-situ surface analyses from Venus.
Results
Returned colour images and in-situ surface analyses from Venus.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog