I assume you mean the photos of the surface of Venus, not of the spacecraft themselves. There seem to be several places that have such things. There is a site over at MIT which has data from the Venera 15/16 radar mapper courtesy the Vernadsky Institute. This same site also has some sample images of Sif Mons and Gula Mons from the Venera 15/16, Pioneer 12, and Magellan projects. There also seems to be a Russian solar system data archive from various missions which might have this information. Finally, the national Space Science Data Archive over at Goddard might have some of this image data online.
On March 1, 1982 the Venera 13 lander touched down on the Venusian surface at 7.5° S, 303° E, east of Phoebe Regio. It was the first Venera mission to include a color TV camera. Venera 13 survived on the surface for 2 hours, 7 minutes, long enough to obtain 14 images. This color panorama shown above, was produced using dark blue, green and red filters and has a resolution of 4 to 5 min. Part of the spacecraft is seen at the bottom of the image. Flat rock slabs and soil are visible. The true color is difficult to judge because the Venerian atmosphere filters out blue light. The surface composition is similar to terrestrial basalt. On the ground in the foreground is a camera lens cover. venera13l.jpg is the left half of the Venera 13 photo and venera13r.jpg is the right half.
Copyright (C) 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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