Why Didn't Anyone Believe the First Machine on Venus?

Why Didn't Anyone Believe the First Machine on Venus? On 15 December 1970, a Soviet probe hit the surface of Venus — and went silent. Everyone assumed Venera 7 was dead. It wasn't. Buried in the noise on the tapes was a signal about a hundred times weaker than it should have been. For 23 minutes, from a surface at nearly 475 °C and around 90 times Earth's atmospheric pressure, a battered titanium sphere kept talking. It was the first transmission ever received from the surface of another planet — and almost nobody heard it. This is the story of how that signal was found, why it almost wasn't, and what those 23 minutes told us about the most hostile world in the Solar System. Statistically, 98% of the people watching this aren't subscribed. If you like what we make here, subscribe — the next story is already on its way. — Archival images (Wikimedia Commons) used in this video: • Soviet Space Tracking Station NIP-16, Yevpatoria — kukusik, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Fred Hoyle — Woodruff T. Sullivan III, NRAO/AUI Archives, Sullivan Collection, CC BY 4.0 • Lavochkin Association (NPO Lavochkin) — Lestest, CC BY-SA 4.0 • Venera-7 — Stanislav Kozlovskiy, CC BY-SA 4.0 • RIAN archive 632920, Lvov cotton mill — B. Krishtul, CC BY-SA 3.0 • 1979 GAZ-24 Volga — Alexander-93, CC BY-SA 4.0 • RT-70 radio telescope, Evpatoria — Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0 • Kipp & Zonen chart recorder — Wusel007, CC BY-SA 3.0 • Purple code machine fragment — ArnoldReinhold, CC BY-SA 4.0 #Venera7 #Venus #SpaceHistory