Rocket Lab and MIT are poised to send the first private mission to Venus, to search for signs of life
At only 2% the cost of NASA's Venus missions, this trip will be quite a bargain.
At only 2% the cost of NASA's Venus missions, this trip will be quite a bargain.
Could we find microbial life on Venus after all?
Ancient aliens may have not found Venus that appealing.
Don't worry, there could still be life in the clouds of other planets
We haven't been there in a while.
During a flyby, the NASA spacecraft surprised scientists with an image of the Venusian surface.
Life on Venus is as unlikely as ever.
"If Venus is indeed active today, it would make a great place to visit," said researchers,
Scientists hope to verify their observations with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope in 2021.
The bigger they are the… harder they mess up Venus, I guess.
This suggests that the planet's interior is still churning away.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the hottest of them all?
Earth's sister planet might also enjoy a bit of volcanism.
There's also a whirly-dirly corollary associated with this new method.
Strange things happen in the dark.
Well, they don't anymore.
Goddesses... always have to stand out, don't they?
They'll have to face boiling acids and extreme pressures.
Anthropologists have shown that Mayan tablets of math and astronomy have been greatly underestimated.
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