A Venus Landing . ... It was transmitted by a TV camera on the Soviet Venera 13 lander which parachuted to the surface on March 1, 1982. Venus' clouds are composed of sulfuric acid droplets while its surface temperature is about 900 degrees Fahrenheit (482 degrees C) at an atmospheric pressure of 92 times that of sea-level on Earth. ... An earlier Soviet Venus lander, Venera 7 (1970), was the first spacecraft to return data from the surface of another planet. ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ...