Elon Musk is constantly thinking of new ideas however his greatest dream is to travel to another
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ever since astronomy first emerged Humanity has contemplated populating Distant Worlds books and
movies about it have been produced however it looks like we're getting closer than ever to
making this concept a reality numerous candidates for Earth 2.0 have been studied by scientists and
several have been identified how would it feel to live in Mercury's underground lava tubes or
the clouds of Venus which planet will host the first colonies of humans and how will our lives
change after we move away from home and get ready to learn about the projects that SpaceX
and NASA have been working on as well as what will occur in the near future Venus is receiving some
much needed affection Veritas and Orbiter and DaVinci Plus in atmospheric probe will both be
launched by NASA in 2030 on a journey to Earth's scorchingly hot sister Planet the two will end
the space agency's protracted dry spell on Venus which began with the 1989 launch of the Magellan
radar mapping Orbiter the last dedicated mission to the second planet from the sun Venus is also
being targeted by other entities for instance the space agencies of Europe India and Russia
are all researching Venus Mission designs for a prospective launch in the following 10 to 20 years
likewise in 2023 the california-based business rocket lab plans to launch a trip to the planet
In Search of Life in fact we might be seeing the commencement of a legitimate exploratory
push for Venus planetary scientist David grinspoon a member of The Da Vinci plus team and a steadfast
supporter of more extensive research on Venus said my sense is that people are going to be surprised
by how interesting Venus is because it's such a complicated Dynamic and fascinating environment
grinspoon a scientist at the planetary Science Institute said in a report and if that is the
case then the results of the early missions will also feed a desire for more missions Venus had
previously enjoyed public attention from the 1960s to the mid-1980s the Soviet Union often targeted
the planet with its Venera and Vega programs notching a number of exploration Milestones along
the way regardless of a number of launch failures for instance in October 1967 Venera 4 made history
as the first spacecraft to send data back from another planet's atmosphere revealing that Venus
had an extremely heated surface and unexpectedly thick air the first successful soft landing on a
planet other than Earth was accomplished three years later by Venera 7. the Venera 13 Lander
made the first ever audio recordings on the surface of another planet in 1982 a feat the
NASA's perseverance Rover recently replicated on Mars another off-earth first was a successful
deployment of balloon probes in the dense venusian atmosphere during the Vega 1 and Vega 2 missions
in the middle of the 1980s although not nearly as many as its cold war opponents the United
States launched some Venus missions during this period flybys of the planet were made by NASA's
Mariner 2 Mariner 5 and Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1962 67 and 74 respectively likewise the space
agency launched the Pioneer Venus multi-probe and Pioneer Venus Orbiter in 1978. in December
of that year the multi-probe launched four entry ships with instruments into Venus's atmosphere
the Orbiter continued to observe Venus until 1992. then there was the Magellan Mission which was the
first interplanetary mission to ever launch from a space shuttle synthetic aperture radar was used
to image Venus in great detail up to October 1994 when The probe's Operators decided to let Magellan
plunge into the atmosphere of Venus to meet its demise once it is through the list becomes quite
short from 2006 until 2014 the Venus Express Orbiter operated by Europe observed the planet
concentrating on its atmosphere furthermore Japan's Akatsuki satellite has been conducting
its own atmospheric studies ever since it reached Venus in December 2015. following some stubborn
problem solving a trip back to Venus for a variety of reasons Venus became less of an exploration
objective it had a chilling effect as evidenced by the fact that Vega 2 is still the last successful
entirely domestic interplanetary Mission launched by the Soviet Union or its successor State Russia
the Soviet Union's fall an eventual collapse in the early 1990s also had an impact with the
exomars project which sent an Orbiter to the red planet in 2016 and intends to send a life-hunting
Rover there in 2022 Ross Cosmos the federal Space Agency of Russia and the European Space Agency are
collaborating also NASA increasingly concentrated its robotic exploration efforts on Mars in the
1990s and Beyond since the planet's surface clearly shows evidence of past water activity and
is friendlier to Landers and Rovers even the most effective Venus Landers have only lasted a few
hours on the planet's surface because it is so hot that lead melts given that Venus is a challenging
environment to examine grinspoon said it is somewhat comprehensible why Venus wasn't chosen
earlier the amount of data returned from a Venus Expedition will never be the same as that from a
Mars mission in terms of megabits the pendulum could only sway as far away from Venus before
turning around and returning to the planet's direction for one thing as scientists have
learned more and more specific information about other solar system entities like Mars Mercury and
Pluto the gaps in our knowledge of Venus which is similar to Earth and size and Mass have become
more and more conspicuous according to grinspoon Venus has been so neglected that now the Mysteries
it's almost an embarrassment or certainly an impediment to fully understanding our solar system
also according to experts Venus was once a vastly different planet one that was warm and temperate
and had oceans rivers and streams according to recent studies the planet's surface may
have even supported Earth-like life for several billion years before a runaway greenhouse effect
began to dominate some 700 million years ago and certain regions of Venus might still be livable
today temperatures and pressures approximately 30 miles above the planet's searing surface
are pretty similar to those on Earth thus it's plausible that bacteria are already present in
the venusian skies and are moving around with the sulfuric acid clouds mysterious
dark areas in those sky are where UV radiation is absorbed some scientists have hypothesized
that these areas may be caused by a sulfur-based pigment produced by bacteria to prevent sunburn
the sickle of phosphine a potential biosignature gas was recently reported to have been seen around
that 30 mile height by one research team but other teams have not corroborated the alleged
phosphine discovery which is still the subject of intense discussion and disagreement hence
just as the hunt for extraterrestrial life has gradually moved from the scientific periphery
into the mainstream Venus has grown to be a more appealing astrobiological Target in recent years
the current exoplanet Revolution which has shown that the universe is crowded with
potentially habitable worlds has aided in this change a further Factor contributing to Venus's
growing attraction is that exoplanet researchers are eager to understand more about the planet
according to grinspoon the exoplanet Community is very interested in studying Venus because
it's obvious to anyone who sort of thinks about solar systems planetary systems or systematically
that understanding the Venus Earth difference is really key to understanding how planets evolve
in general and how habitable conditions evolve likewise there is a more pragmatic reason to
understand how Venus came to be a searing hellhole after all through deforestation and the burning
of fossil fuels humanity is moving Earth in that perilous Direction and Venus can serve as both a
natural laboratory and a warning sign Venus being somewhat of an extreme case can really push our
models to their limits according to grinspoon there's a lot that we still need to learn about
climate and how it changes on earth-like planets he added Venus is just too valuable in that sense
in my opinion for us to ignore any longer there is a value to the comparative study
of similar planets that makes you wiser about how your own operates and changes grinspoon says
the future missions Veritas and DaVinci plus were chosen by NASA's Discovery program which creates
reasonably affordable exploration programs each mission is anticipated to launch between 2028 and
2030 with a maximum cost cap of about 500 million dollars the radar-based Veritas Mission which
stands for venous emissivity radio science insar topography and spectroscopy we'll scan Venus's
surface in great detail from orbit while also keeping an eye on infrared surface emissions to
determine how different rock types are distributed across the planet according to NASA officials such
studies will give Insight on the geologic past and climatic evolution of Venus and Aid scientists in
figuring out whether the planet still has active volcanism and plate tectonics Venus's dense
atmosphere will be traversed by a decent sphere as part of Da Vinci plus deep atmosphere Venus
investigation of noble gases chemistry and imaging as it descends the probe will study the makeup of
the atmosphere delivering information that will help scientists understand how the planet became
a hot house according to grinspoon the da Vinci plus team also intends to search for phosphine
Tom Wagner a scientist with the inasa Discovery program said in a statement on Wednesday day that
it is astonishing how little we know about Venus however the combined results of these missions
will reveal information about the planet from the clouds in its sky to the volcanoes on its surface
all the way down to its very core it will be as if we have rediscovered the planet if everything
goes according to plan the two NASA missions will be followed by a privately sponsored Venus effort
rocket lab intends to launch a Venus mission in 2023 using its electron rocket and Photon
satellite bus the plan specifics are still being worked out but the objective is to utilize an
atmospheric probe to look for indications of life in Venus's warm stretch of Skies Peter
Beck the founder and CEO of Rocket lab announced the initiative last summer we're going to learn
a lot on the way there and we're going to have a crack at seeing if we can discover what's in
that atmospheric Zone Beck said and who knows you might strike it rich according to Beck that first
trip might even serve as the beginning of a longer rocket lab venous effort there are other Ambitions
for Venus so those private missions May in turn be a part of a bigger worldwide exploration effort
one of the three medium-class missions that the European Space Agency is proposing for flight
in 2032 for instance is a Venus Orbiter proposal named envision with the code name shukrian1 the
Indian space research organization is working on a hypothetical Venus mission of its own that
might take off in 2024 or 2026 a balloon probe for the atmosphere would be part of the effort
along with an Orbiter and with the complex Venera d project which includes an Orbiter a landing and
Atmospheric balloons Russia hopes to finally return to Venus if all goes as planned Venera
D will launch in 2029 and while waiting for this mission to take flight let's Explore More on Venus
the hottest and brightest planet in the solar system is Venus which is the second planet from
the sun according to the method used by the astronomical community and the international
astronomical Union the hot terrestrial Rocky type planet is named after the Roman goddess of beauty
and love it is the only planet in the solar system to Bear a female name different names for Heavenly
locations exist in other cultures since Venus was the brightest of the five planets that were
known to ancient astronomers it is possible that it was named after the most attractive
deity in the Roman and Greek pantheons Venus was known as Aphrodite in ancient Greek city-states
Venus was sometimes believed to be two separate stars in ancient times the evening star and the
morning star or the stars that first showed at Sunset and Daybreak they were referred to as
Vesper and Lucifer respectively in Christian Latin before Satan's fall he was known as Lucifer the
lightbringer in Christian times the environment on Venus though appears to be a living hell according
to many observations made in the space era due to the short duration of spacecraft's survival on its
surface Venus is an extremely challenging planet to examine closely the reflecting clouds on Venus
make it very apparent from Earth Venus is one of the brightest natural objects in the night sky
and appears in the sky as a brilliant white orb according to NASA it has a maximum magnitude or
apparent brightness that is not far from negative five in contrast the magnitude of the moon is
about negative 14. the lower the magnitude the brighter the object will appear to the eye while
Venus appears Rusty from a distance NASA claims that it is not the same deep red rust that one
would find on Mars instead Venus appears to have red brown and yellow undertones in images that
NASA and others have returned from the planet Venus is a planet with a high level of volcanic
activity and Cornell University hypothesizes that the color is a result of the numerous volcanic
rocks that litter the surface but because of the sulfuric acid clouds that encircle the planet it
is impossible to detect Venus's real color from orbit therefore photographs of Venus can only be
seen if an orbiting spacecraft has the ability to look through the dense atmosphere a human Explorer
would have to descend and endure the oven-like temperatures and extreme pressures present there
in order to see the surface we'll probably use robotic explorers to gaze at Venus for the time
being due to its harsh climate the path that the other planets the Sun and the Moon also follow in
our solar system along with the ecliptic is where Venus is in its orbit that isn't a coincidence
because the ecliptic indicates the plane or orientation of our solar system which all relates
to how our solar system formed conjunctions or near encounters between Celestial worlds are
quite frequent in the earth's sky as a result of Venus's proximity to other planets you can
observe Venus aligning with the moon several times per year and less frequently with other planets
Venus and Earth are frequently referred to be twins because of their resemblance in terms
of size mass density composition and gravity with a mass that is almost 80 percent that of
Earth Venus is only somewhat smaller than our planet Venus is a rocky planet not a gas giant
Venus's metallic iron core which is around 2 400 miles broad makes up the majority of the planet's
interior around 1200 miles of rock make up Venus's molten mantle Venus's crust is thought to be 6 to
12 miles thick on average and is primarily made of Basalt it is not entirely clear why Venus is
the hottest planet in the solar system Venus is not the planet that is closest to the Sun
but its Rich atmosphere traps heat in a wildly exaggerated version of the greenhouse effect that
we can observe here on Earth with global warming as a result Venus experiences temperatures that
are more than hot enough to melt lead reaching 880 degrees Fahrenheit only a few hours have passed
since a spacecraft has landed on the planet before it was destroyed Venus has a hellish
atmosphere with sweltering temperatures that is primarily made of carbon dioxide sulfuric acid
clouds and very small amounts of water since Venus's atmosphere is denser than any other
planets its surface pressure is nearly 90 times greater than that of Earth or around 1000 meters
of water this pressure is comparable to that found 3300 feet below the surface of the ocean
Venus has a very dry atmosphere the rapid evaporation of water caused by the Sun's UV
rays during the planet's development kept Venus in a protracted molten state currently there
isn't any liquid water on the surface due to the planet's ozone-filled atmosphere's intense heat
which would cause water to boil away instantly approximately two-thirds of Venus's surface is
made up of smooth flat planes that are dotted with thousands of volcanoes some of which are
still active today these volcanoes range in size from 0.5 to 150 miles across and their lava flows
have carved long winding canals that can reach a maximum length of 3000 Miles about one-third
of Venus's surface is made up of six hilly areas the tallest landmark on the earth is a mountain
range known as Maxwell which is around 540 miles long and as high as 7 miles also unique to Venus
are a number of its surface characteristics as an example Venus possesses coronae or crowns which
are ring-like structures that are 95 to 1300 miles wide these according to scientists are the results
of the planet's surface being warped by heated material that surged from beneath the crust on
Venus there are also tesserae or tiles which are high places where several ridges and valleys have
developed in a variety of directions as the only planet in our solar system without known moons
Venus is essentially unique Mercury which is quite close to the Sun is the only other planet that
has been officially declared as having no moons though they can't yet explain why certain planets
have moons and others don't scientists can state that each planet has a distinctive history that
may have had a role in how moons formed or didn't form by far the slowest of the major planets Venus
rotates on its axis every 243 Earth days in fact Venus's day is longer than its year which may be
the result of Venus's dense atmosphere acting as a significant break on the planet's rotation
on Venus a day lasts significantly longer than it does on Earth venusian days are 5832 hours long or
243 Earth days on earth a day lasts 23.943 hours likewise due to this slow spin the metal core is
unable to produce a magnetic field identical to that of the earth Venus's magnetic field is .00015
times stronger than Earth's having said that do you think there is life on Venus Please Subscribe
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