Venus

The hardest surface in the inner solar system, and why interest has returned.

Scope

• The surface environment: pressure, temperature, chemistry
• Historical missions and the Venera record
• Cloud-layer science and the phosphine debate
• Upcoming orbiter and probe missions
• Aerial and balloon platforms

Notes

Nothing written here yet. Working notes go in Research and Learning Lab; anything that becomes durable is promoted onto this page.

References

To be added as the topic is worked through.