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Volcanoes on Venus are still active
- dmix 6y ago> These results may help identify target areas where geologic instruments should be placed on future missions to Venus, such as Europe's EnVision that is scheduled to launch in 2032. Russia has also been talking about renewing their famous Venera program for some time, which was the first human-made probe to land on another planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera >> Venera-D is a proposed mission to Venus that would include a highly capable orbiter and a lander. From the standpoint of total mass delivered to Venus, the best launch opportunities occur in 2026 and 2031 Venera-D could incorporate some NASA components, including balloons, a subsatellite for plasma measurements, or a long-lived (24 hours) surface station on the lander.
- m4rtink 6y agoUnfortunatelly, while looking quite promissing a few years back the Russian space program is currently yet again very cash strapped and has issues with covering its primary oblikations, let alone nice ambitious missions like that.
- holoduke 6y agothe year is 2289. Russia fully occupies Venus. USA controls most parts of Mars. China has an estimated ownership of 80% of all astroids in our planetary system. Europe is still not aligned on budgeting and long term planning.
- adrianN 6y agoYou're very optimistic if you believe today's political structures will have anything to do with what we'll have in 250 years.
- maze-le 6y ago> the year is 2289. Gazprom fully occupies Venus. Walmart controls most parts of Mars. Cosco has an estimated ownership of 80% of all astroids in our planetary system. Volkswagen is still not aligned on budgeting and long term planning.
- extrememacaroni 6y ago> spaceship software runs on Electron
- josefx 6y agoA total of three hundred instances split over twenty Kubernetes clusters. A set of specifically trained A.I. monitors their output to derive action plans from their completely random and constant disagreement. It is the age of the congress class supercomputers.
- LarvaFX 6y agoIt kinda does already. The displays in SpaceX capsule are chrome based...
- jacobush 6y agoOh dear.
- alecco 6y agoWelcome to Costco, I love you.
- Aperocky 6y agotbh asteroids are where the moneys at. The larger planets have too much gravity to ship anything from/to. Asteroids on the other hand can facilitate interplanetary trade and mining with minimum energy expenditure.
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- ceo_tim_crook 6y agoThe universe is so large I'm not suprised
- blickentwapft 6y agoI saw a fascinating documentary that said the entire surface of Venus is only about 500 million years old. Which implies that the entire surface was molten at the same time and has only recently cooled. 500 million years being “recent”.
- hoseja 6y agoI see great potential in manufacturing a probe that can actually continuously function in Cytherean environment. Gallium nitride seems promising!