Exploring Venus may require exotic tech like balloons and 'aerobots

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Scientists are proposing ways to explore Venus in the next decade and beyond by way of a host of advanced technologies, from balloons to long-lived landers.

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[Cdr. Shepard]

Leonard always has fun articles. Interesting subject matter(s).

 

[Unclear Engineer]

Interesting that we can already do more than we are planning to do with Venus, but at still working on doing more than we can do with Mars.

I think the urge to find extraterrestrial life is the primary driver of the priorities. The idea of "colonization" is also driving some (e.g., Musk), too.

But, I think that understanding how Venus developed the atmosphere that it has now should be a high priority for humans, right now.

 

[Cdr. Shepard]

Interesting that we can already do more than we are planning to do with Venus, but at still working on doing more than we can do with Mars.

I think the urge to find extraterrestrial life is the primary driver of the priorities. The idea of "colonization" is also driving some (e.g., Musk), too.

But, I think that understanding how Venus developed the atmosphere that it has now should be a high priority for humans, right now.

What's the urgency to understand the Venusian atmosphere's development? To avoid a similar hadian fate? To understand past or present habitability? I'm a fan of planetary exploration either way!