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Venus is difficult to photograph for the same reason as Titan, thick opaque atmosphere. We've got radar imagery of Venus, plus the Soviets landed some probes and took a few pictures of the actual hell that surface level Venus is.

We can actually get a pretty good look at Mars from here; This is a picture of Mars taken with Hubble. We have active missions in orbit and on the surface of Mars as well so we can look at it as close as we want.

Meanwhile, this is the best Hubble could do with Pluto. And that's still inside our own solar system, we're not getting any photos of the surface of Earth mass planets around other stars.

this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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