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Well one reason is because it's so hot there there is almost no chance to find life or to build a station there. Also I wonder if it is because the Russians se
by rdtsc 9y ago
Well one reason is because it's so hot there there is almost no chance to find life or to build a station there. Also I wonder if it is because the Russians set to explore it, landed a probe on it and all. So maybe then it became uninteresting to follow in their footsteps. Just like the Russians stopped sending rovers to the moon once Americans landed there.
- vacri 9y agoNot just the heat, but also the sulphuric acid rain and the 90atm of pressure. I do find it odd though, that this curious planet with heaps of activity is so often 'passed over' by space nerds. Curiously, the earliest out-of-lab digital photography that I'm aware of was from that Russian probe to Venus in the 70's, which lasted less than an hour in the hostile atmosphere. Photos: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/mission_page/VN_Venera_9_Lander_page1.html https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/mission_page/VN_Vene...
- gambiting 9y agoIt has the interesting property of about 50km above the surface being the only place in the solar system - other than Earth obviously - where a human being could survive without a space suit, just with an oxygen supply. The pressure and temperature are exactly like on a normal Earth day(1atm and around 0-20C). Floating barges high up in Venus atmosphere have been suggested previously.
- turk184 9y agoDoes that not consider all the sulfuric acid or is that not a problem at the 1 Bar altitude?