Posted on 10/23/2019 9:29:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The probe will reportedly be able to survive for up to 60 days on Venus' harsh surface, where all others have made it for only a few hours. The Long-Lived In-situ Solar System Explorer, reported earlier Wednesday by Wired, is scheduled to be built and tested by 2023 and ready to face the treacherous conditions on Venus' surface for up to 60 days, including extremely high temperatures, tornadolike winds and high atmospheric pressure.
Each part of the LLISSE will be designed to survive in these conditions on Venus' surface, where previous spacecraft starting in 1966 have made it only a few hours, Wired said. The spacecraft will be small, a cube less than 10 inches per side, and will contain tools to test things like Venus' atmosphere and geology, according to the report.
LLISSE is being created with the Venera-D mission in mind, Tibor Kremic, chief of the space science project office at Glenn Research Center in Ohio, told Wired. Venera-D is a joint program between NASA and Russia's space agency, which would involve a Venus orbiter and two landers. However, that mission was originally targeted for 2013, and has now been pushed to 2026 or later.
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I’m jealous of the whole effort. It’s just a simple case of Venus envy.
They will find the same thing they found the last time they we to Venus... Nothing!
*ping*
It’s burning like a silver flame, the summit of beauty and love.
Oh baby, she’s got it.
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