Venera 13's last pictures from Venus give Destiny its one new film
The space documentary follows the Soviet lander that touched down on March 1, 1982, and asks what its final transmissions might hint at.
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What the Soviets Saw on Venus Before the Signal Went Silent
There is no usual day on hand to measure this one against, so the Venus film will have to make its own case. It is the only upload on Destiny this week, and five days in it has passed 150,000 views, drawing several times the daily views of anything else on the channel.
The subject is Venera 13, the Soviet lander that came down through the clouds of Venus on March 1, 1982. It sent back color pictures of a flat, rocky, volcanic surface and survived a little over two hours in heat and pressure that would crush most machines. The description goes a step further and promises a look at final transmissions that "hinted at" unusual molecular structures, and at what that might mean for life in places once written off. That reading belongs to the video, not to the mission's scientists.
The older films keep the same orbit. "We Were Wrong About Jupiter!" opens with the Galileo probe's plunge into the gas giant in 1995 and has passed 800,000 views in a month. A James Webb look at Uranus and Neptune, built around Voyager 2's 1989 flyby, is close behind it in daily pace. Taken together, the channel is working its way outward through the solar system.
Its neighbors in size are having a lively stretch. Scott Manley is running at several times his usual daily pace, and BBC Earth Science has roughly doubled its own. Animagraffs is a little quieter than normal. Destiny, at just over two million subscribers, sits in the middle of that group.
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- Destiny
- Subscribers
- 2,010,000
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- September 26, 2026
- Video views so far
- 156,745
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Which spacecraft is the only one to have flown past both Uranus and Neptune?
Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989, and no other spacecraft has visited either planet.
