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I love the Venus photos that the Soviet landers managed to take. Sure, they're terrible quality, but they're currently the only images we have from Venus. I wo

• 72deluxe 12y ago
  I was amazed that they managed to beam a clear photo back from a probe they'd safely landed on the distant planet at all! Venus is incredibly inhospitable so I was very impressed at the engineering required to do this, particularly as it was the 1970s (and we think 1980s 8 bit computers are rubbish!)
• Shivetya 12y ago
  Likely they could, but consider instead doing a Venus Orbiter similar to the Mars orbiter. With some technology behind he perhaps it could deploy kite/sail like probes that slowly dip their way through the atmosphere. We probably don't go back simply because the environment is so hostile the idea of landing man there is not possible and hence we concentrate on Mars which holds other allure aswell
  • TeMPOraL 12y ago
    There is an idea of deploying floating habitats on Venus - apparently an air-filled balloon would float above the hostile layers of gases, and you could still extract some unseful materials from the atmosphere itself. I hope they'll at least try sending a long-duration unmanned airship there.
• rdtsc 12y ago
  Yeah their Venera program was fantastic. It is too bad the West doesn't know more about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera It actually started with a fly-by in 1961