Venera 13

Venera 13 was the most successful Venus lander, returning the first color photographs from the planet’s surface and surviving for 127 minutes — over four times its 30-minute design life. It drilled into the Venus surface and analyzed the soil, finding it to be leucitic basalt. Most remarkably, it carried a microphone that recorded the only sound ever captured on another planet’s surface — the Venusian wind and the sound of its own drill operating. The color panoramas revealed an orange-brown landscape of flat rocks under Venus’s thick overcast sky.