Space Exploration to Venus
I am not sure if I’m a bit outdated about the space exploration but I found some interesting readings about the topic recently. Well, I have been very interested in things related to space and universe since I was young. As far as I can remember, when I was in Primary 3, I asked my English teacher about possibility of living in Moon or any other planets. Okok, back to the space news.
“Europe’s Venus Express probe has settled down (April 2006) on the orbit around our nearest planetary neighbour after a five-month journey. Venus Express will orbit our nearest planetary neighbour for about 500 Earth days to study its atmosphere, which has undergone runaway greenhouse warming. This mission is aimed to investigate how Venus, so close to our own in size, mass, and composition, has evolved so differently over the last 4.6 billion years. Although Earth is unlikely to ever end up as hot, a build-up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could result in our own planet taking some uncomfortable steps toward the situation on Venus. Our planetary neighbour’s hostile climate could also hold answers to how global warming will affect Earth in future decades, helping to constrain computer models of climate change. ”
Well, just hope that we can find reliable results from this mission to confirm the claims for bad implications of global warming. (Side issues: It’s quite hot now in Singapore although it rains once in a while. Could be due to global warming.) Anyway, I just realised that Russia’s Venera-9 and 10 managed to land on the surface (in 1975!!) and took images of it before succumbing to high temperature and pressure of Venus. I didn’t know about that until I read the news about the new mission to Venus. The picture below shows the surface of Venus. This is the closest encounter we can get from this forbidden world. Can’t really imagine how the place feels like. 
Source from BBC News
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