Merry Christmas Eve! To celebrate, here’s the fourth poster in the series I’m working on for my Digital Media Studies Master’s Project. Venera (which is written here in pseudo-Cyrllic) was actually a series of missions flown by the Soviet Union over a 20+ year period from 1961-1984, each aimed at Venus. It remains the only program to have landed anything on the surface of Venus. The design changed over the course of the flight program, but I based this poster on the Venera 9-12 landers — and specifically Venera 9, which was the first to transmit images of the surface back to Earth.
Venus has a very thick atmosphere, and the high temperatures and pressures on the surface make it a fairly unpleasant place. I tried to convey that with clouds and wisps of fog, but I’m not super happy with the way they turned out. Still, I must keep moving onward. The goal is good enough, not perfect…
Four down, at least 8 more to go…
(Previously: Curiosity, Sputnik, New Horizons)
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