The Venera 4 mission by the Soviet Union in 1967 was the first to get through Venus’s thick atmosphere, but it could not land successfully. The first images of Venus’s surface came only when Venera 9 and 10 landed on Venus in 1975. Even after landing, spacecraft could not last long under the extreme heat and pressure of Venus’s surface. The longest time of data transmission from Venus is 127 minutes, and then the spacecraft was destroyed.