Back to Venus

The film tells about the study of the surface of Venus using the Soviet automatic interplanetary stations "Venera-13" and "Venera-14". First part. View of the Earth from Space. Radar device at sunset. The spaceship starts. View of the planet Venus in the night sky. Photos of Venus. A man looks through a telescope at the observatory. Radar devices. The first images from the surface of Venus, obtained by Soviet scientists in 1975. Director of the Institute of Space Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Academician RZ Sagdeev talks about the first years of the study of the planets of the solar system, about the creation of a new logic of research, new methods, about methods of studying the planet Venus (sync.) Volcanic eruption, fiery lava flows. Automatic interplanetary stations "Venera-13" and "Venera-14", created to study the surface of Venus. Lander for work on Venus, located inside the ball, crowning the station. Drilling rigs built to work on the surface of Venus. A drilling rig takes a sample of soil on the surface of Venus. Scientists observe instruments. Images transmitted from Venus. Filming pavilion of the film studio, filming the "surface of Venus". Testing of new devices created for the study of Venus. Second part: Scientists study the readings of instruments that record measurements in a special chamber that simulates the atmosphere of Venus. Blowing instruments in a wind tunnel. Type of instruments with changes in design, designed by engineers after testing instruments in a special chamber. The last test of instruments before landing on Venus. The workers are preparing for flight Venera-13 and Venera-14. General view of the lander, ready to explore the clouds, the soil and atmosphere of Venus. October 30, 1981, the launch of "Venera-13". November 4, 1981, the launch of "Venus - 14". Kaliningrad, Mission Control Center, main hall, map of the starry sky. Scientists transmit information about the landing of the device on the surface of Venus, those present in the hall are smiling. The device descends on Venus (filming from Space). The first picture from Venus. Shooting through a red, green filter. Filming through the blue filter does not work. An employee of the Mission Control Center announces the landing on the surface of Venus of the lander of the automatic interplanetary station "Venera-14" (sync.). Images of the surface of Venus on the monitors in the hall. Panorama based on photographs from the surface of Venus. Highlighting on the map of Venus two new studied regions.

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Script writers M. Borisov, I. Nekhamkin