Robotic Exploration of Venus

Here's a NASA promotional video showing a concept of how they could explore Venus with a group of robots.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• space
• venus
• rover

[wainstead]

They weren't crushed, they just overheated and the electronics were fried. The probes were built out of titanium to survive the heat and acid. (Titanium's melting point is twice that of Venus's surface temperature). The idea being studied to cool the rovers is to use a Stirling cooler (based on the Stirling engine concept) to keep the internal electronics down to about 200C (392F). Apparently NASA scientists believe they can build electronics that work at that temperature.

[ALAKD3LTA221]

The Venera 13 lander surviveed only 127 minutes,while the Venera 14 survived only 57 minutes.The probes would probably still rests on the surface as of today...

[Tempus101]

I hope I live to see this. Or something like this.

[MrToiletface]

shitty fag music ruins this vid. techno is for homos

[Neueregel]

@UndeadPizzaGuy Don't wanna make this into a rivalry, but what about the abandonment NASA ISS launches after 30 years? You can't even launch LEO missions from your home country regularly now. Instead,you send astronauts from Russian ground. NASA's budget is totally shrinking. I call this a huge regress, defeat and disappointment of the american space program and U.S. space vision. Get yourselves together, before judging ESA which is a relatively new coalition with no as many expectations as NASA

[UndeadPizzaGuy]

@Neueregel Not your thing? I'm sorry, but what was ESA's sad attempt at a Martian landing? Beagle 2. Maybe when ESA can establish even a landing of any sort, you can start talking down to NASA about not allocating more resources to Mars. Maybe when ESA launches a multi-billion dollar mission like Curiosity, your point will have more credence, whereas it has absolutely none now.

[Neueregel]

@DrNothing23 Sorry to disappoint you mate, but as a European, NASA is not my thing.If they wanna spend billions it's their issue. But I already applied to ESA recently after my M.Sc., having my interview pending next month.500 Celcius is not fun, every kid knows that.NASA scientists should do the same and invest more in ambitious missions like Mars Terraforming for resource extraction.Venus surface probes never lasted more than 2.5 hours so there's no point bothering with the Venerian hell.

[DrNothing23]

@Neueregel Too bad you don't work for NASA, as they could sure use some scientific and insightful minds like yours... You should apply! This realization that they've obviously so far missed alone would save them many millions of dollars! REALLY... APPLY. Do yourself, NASA and the United States of America a favor!

[Vlakpage]

@Gorilder There are few missions planned, one from each agency ESA, NASA, Roscosmos but there is not much info about them, could be cancelled due to budget restrictions or something. I really hope we will see lander, flyer or even rover in this decade, can't wait. Venus is closer than Mars and even more interesting and not so well explored, there should be definitely more missions to it. Search exploration of Venus in Wikipedia, the projects are mentioned there.

[aykayem]

... cool! - a fun animation to watch while bopping to that wonderful music! LOL

[MrAndersohn]

@Romirin Ну, на счет "вено-планера" - полностью с вами согласен, а вот ровер - вещь практичная , сколько открытий для науки сделали марсианские роверы (всех не перечесть), почему бы не послать ровер на Венеру? Пусть посверлит, покопает , проанализирует - может найдет неопровержимые доказательства существования океана и жизни на древней Венере - все это изменит не только науку, но и наше мировоззрение...

[Romirin]

@MrAndersohn Непрактично по 2 причинам

1. для того что бы летать в атмосфере с давлением выше чем на земле.. даже при 90 атмосферах - вы посчитайте какое должно быть крыло и т.д.

2. смысл такого затяжного полета ? лучше пусть луну освоят и научатся без сбоев выводить автоматические станции на нужные траектории ! а так это можно расценивать как развлекательное видео !