Spacecraft has landed on the surface before and sent data back. There are glass materials that don't melt at 450 deg C, so why couldn't they just place a digicam inside to take pics and then them back to Earth?
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Pictures were taken of Venus' surface by the Venera landers using analog cameras.
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Mmk, so the last orbiter to go to Venus was the European Space Agency probe called the Venus Express back in 2005. But the last lander was in 1984. It melted in minutes. The simple facts are that the cameras on orbiters and landers sucked back then, and getting true pictures of the surface would've been near impossible. So they settled for the next best thing.
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to break trough the thick cloud cover, we use radar, this doesn't give us any colors. Also, scientists aren't interested in having true color pictures of Venus. It is not relevant information for them.
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There are. The Soviet probes had color cameras. They did use them to take color pictures of the surface of Venus way back in the 1960's.