NASA Wants to Send a Probe to the Hellish Surface of Venus
NASA Wants to Send a Probe to the Hellish Surface of Venus
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
October 24, 20195m 50s
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Show Notes
With all the talk about sending humans to the moon and eventually Mars, it can be easy to forget there are other planets worth exploring. But a team of researchers at NASA has set its sights on Venus, Earth’s closest neighbor and one of the least understood planets in the solar system. Since the first (crash) landing on Venus in 1966, by a Soviet probe, spacecraft have only survived a total of a few hours on the planet’s surface.
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