Space Daily·4 min read·medium
In 1970, Venera 7 appeared to fall silent when it hit Venus, but engineers later found 23 minutes of faint radio data buried in the recording — the first transmission ever received from the surface of
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Engineers discovered 23 minutes of previously overlooked radio data from the 1970 Soviet Venera 7 mission to Venus. This data confirms the probe successfully transmitted from the surface, marking the first time humanity received signals from another planet.
What ground control dismissed as static turned out to be humanity's first whisper from another world.
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