#venera i

[deep-space-netwerk]

So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.

It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!

But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!

The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.

It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?

Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They had…mixed results.

Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.

Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.

Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.

Lotta problems with lens caps.

For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.

This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:

However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly on….an ejected lens cap.

[shellibocs]

take me back oh, drunken gods of slaughter. you know I've always been your favourite daughter

absolutely blown away by this amazingly piece of my girl venera by @red-nightskies !!! Emma thank you so much for bringing my other head brainworm to life, she looks amazing in your style!! I’m STILL zooming in finding details I didn’t see before! if you ever wanted to commission emma, do it!!

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[atimefordragons]

ummm, MC and Caleb definitely fucked in Interwined Gold right? I'm not just imagining things???

like, it's kinda explicit while also not, right???? right??

NOT OF AFRAID OF WHAT MC? REGRET WHAT CALEB???

I'm not crazy right? I feel like I'm going crazy.

[shellibisshe]

"quintessential ven tunes" - @rolangf credit - [this is template] [playlist]

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[vampireoccult]

✨milo pregnancy montage✨

[queenofnohr]

Saint Venera (she/her) in Nero Bride's outfit by @iunarbahamut on twitter!

My beautiful bride 🥺🥺🥺

[incorrect-undertronic-quotes]

im finally retiring the old oc profile picture, meet venera!

shes the new face of the blog, in part because i have almost no record of the character in the white pfp. plus i can draw better now, and im more open about having "my face" be on the internet!

so yeah heres venera, the new face of the blogs!

[handsome-edvard]

List Five Songs You Like

OK YEA HI SO

I was tagged on my main by @ellasinnombre who said I’m a cutie patootie mootie 🥹 thank you as you are also a cutie patootie in fact the most cutie patootie to ever mootie 🩷

I listen to these songs at least twice per day if not more because they were on the playlists I rotated the most when I was writing the book I finished in July, or when I was thinking about another WIP/making a playlist for it, and when I was studying a whole other book, so the vibe is all over the place ~

Tagging my favs if you wanna, I wanna see what songs you’re liking these days or listening to on repeat @gangstertogangster @somewhat-intelligent @snailsandpuppy-dogtails @nys30 @deagle @do-androids-dream-ao3acc

[jestiamy]

still thinking about this

[druidgroves]

hesitant to post art anymore but maybe a watermark will deter….something, at least.

anyways im obsessing over my current sims household involving a boy, his sister, & his soon to be alien girlfriend

[cepheusgalaxy]

Story Ideas that I need to elabroate eventually

Blonde Knight One: a lady knight swore loyalty to the crown, but after finding how vile and twisted her kingdom was, she swears loyalty to a tricksy witch and becomes her knight. The story follows the adventures of her and two magicians: a transgender sorcerer (she/her) called Adam (short for Adamite) who is very very cheesy and has a boosted ego, and her equally chaotic counterpart, a black trans bard called Eve who is way too flamboyant. The separated may be prime examples of magic casting, but together, they are so unhinged the knight's job is usually to keep them from getting them expelles from whatever kingdom they have a mission on. Based on random ideas from my daily life that somehow fit together, and Vibes.

Venera and [unnamed]: Venera is a russian lved in paranormal adventures with this nonbinary guy (clove motif) that has a more open and dumbass personality than him. They are a great contrast, but they work well together. Based on a design challenge.

The Chosen One: Victor is a chosen one hero from a prophecy in a fantasy world; he knows what his duty is, and hed be happy to comply, if there wasnt so much paperwork. Victor is supposed to slay The Dragon, but each time he gets close, he has to sign so much stuff and get so many appointments before getting close to actually killing it that hes in that for ages. Gabriel, on a fairly distant country, is a magician (he has his diplome) that uses his time helping passerbys and prophecy heroes that criss his path. He is quite poor and had a hard time paying for his magic scholarship, unlike his friend Toriel, a way wealthier magician. One day, Victor stumbles upon the bar where Gabriel usually hangs out, and after they meet, the three of them go in a mission to try and slay the dragon that has been terrorizing their kingdom for ages.

New one: Two freed slaves, a guard dog and a guy who was forced to do sex services, go on a journey together and the Romantic finds out he is actually a chosen one. And can fuel the power of The Seven Deadly Sins, that are the basis of the magic system on this world. Neither the guard dog nor the romantic have pleasant personalities, but now they'll have to save the world ^v^

[toxicentity405]

It’s been a while since I’ve drawn my courier. So, here she is in my slightly updated art-style.

[shellibocs]

— oh, anyone could kill me / and I'd never ever let it be you

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[atimefordragons]

I might be a little late with this trend, but wanted everyone to look cute in their new years clothes and was busy grinding for gege mats instead of unlocking the outfits, anywayyyy

edit: everyone who voted for Zayne, you are correct. those who voted for rafayel are wrong. everyone else has some interesting thoughts.

[shellibisshe]

VENERA MAI. mortal kombat

I am no mother, I am no bride, I am king

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[vampireoccult]

bro's first trip to space & he brings back a whole alien.

sixami translation under cut

melody: milo? i'm back from my walk-- milo: …and this is the coffee maker. venera [in sixami]: and this? milo: the oven. try it. venera [in simlish]: oh-ven. milo: very good! we’ll practice your simlish when i’m not at work and maybe i can learn a little bit of sixami! venera [in sixami]: yes! sixami!

melody: what the entire fuck is that?

melody: AH! venera: my name is venera! i am from sixam and have studied your culture extensively! milo: yeah she has personal space issues...

milo: okay so don't freak out-- melody: i'm already freaking out, milo. there's a purple...thing in our kitchen. what the fuck did you do.

milo: i finally finished all the upgrades on my rocket and, well...this one hitched a ride back somehow. melody: we have to get rid of her. isn't your job making sure these things don't...break containment or whatever?

milo: yeah, but-- melody: milo, we cannot keep her. what if our house gets raided or something?

milo: we'll hide her.

melody: we are not hiding an alien in our fucking house, dude. milo: technically, it's my house. melody: don't be petty right now. think seriously.

melody: you. can't. stay. here. milo: she's not going to understand you. melody: she'll understand this: get. out. milo: melody.

milo: look! you made her cry! apologize! i didn't even know aliens could cry...fascinating... melody: i refuse to be the only logical one about this situation.