This thread on reddit blew my mind: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/xu7pn/with_all_the_curiositymars_pics_heres_a_pic_of/
Apparently the Russians sent a probe that landed on Venus in the 1980s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
And then there is this probe that got picture from the surface of one of Saturn’s moon – Titan.