I was amazed that they managed to beam a clear photo back from a probe they'd safely landed on the distant planet at all! Venus is incredibly inhospitable so I

I was amazed that they managed to beam a clear photo back from a probe they'd safely landed on the distant planet at all! Venus is incredibly inhospitable so I was very impressed at the engineering required to do this, particularly as it was the 1970s (and we think 1980s 8 bit computers are rubbish!)