Episode 584: Surviving On Venus. Is It Time To Go Back To That Awful Place?
If you\u2019ve watched this channel enough, you might have the impression that I hate Venus. It\u2019s possible, just possible I\u2019ve even suggested that the planet is so terrible it should be pushed into the Sun.
\n\nThe reality, of course, is that it\u2019s an absolutely fascinating world - the closest twin to the Earth that we have in the Solar System. It\u2019s nearly the same mass and has the same surface gravity.
\n\nWhile Earth is the beautiful life-filled world we all enjoy, Venus is a tortured hellscape, with temperatures hot enough to melt zinc. With atmospheric pressures more than 93 times what we experience here on the surface of Earth. And I always forget about the sulphuric acid rain.
\n\nThe Soviets sent a series of landers to a horrible demise for a glimpse of the surface of Venus in the 70s and 80s. But nobody\u2019s been back since.
\n\nThere have been new techniques and technologies in development that might make a serious exploration of the surface of Venus possible again. Exploration that could help us understand why the planet went so horribly horribly wrong.
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References:
\nhttps://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/vexag_goals_2007.pdf
\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-studying-shared-venus-science-objectives-with-russian-space-research-institute
\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/16/world/soviet-spacecraft-heads-for-comet.html
\nhttps://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2015/0305-venus-from-33-years-ago.html
\nhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/268472597_Analysis_of_Solar_Cell_Efficiency_for_Venus_Atmosphere_and_Surface_Missions
\nhttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2017EA000355
\nhttps://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2018/pdf/1243.pdf
\nhttp://www.russianspaceweb.com/venera_d.html
\nhttps://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/meetings/archive/vexag_14/presentations/27-Kremic-Long-Lived%20Venus%20Station.pdf
\nhttps://science.nasa.gov/technology/technology-stories/electronics-demonstrate-operability-in-simulated-venus-conditions
\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/a-clockwork-rover-for-venus
\nhttps://www.lpi.usra.edu/vexag/meetings/archive/vexag_15/presentations/9-Saunder-AREE.pdf
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9fki7dligU
\nhttps://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2012_phase_I_fellows_landis.html
\nhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12905-antique-fridge-could-keep-venus-rover-cool/