20 February 2021, 10:06 am EST By
Space exploration is going well this 2020 and 2021, especially with the arrival of three Mars visitors: the Hope Mars orbiter from UAE, the Tianwen-1 rover from China, and the Perseverance land rover from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the United States, delivering their own images of Mars from space and the land.
But, back in the 1980s, a Russian lander was able to visit Venus, the second planet from the Sun, and took some shots of the planet s surface before it melted down.
Fact Checking Viral Image of Venus
The images acquired had been circulating online lately on Facebook and other social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter, but it had a misleading caption saying that the images were the only clear photo ever taken from the surface of Venus by Soviet spacecraft Venera 13.