Mission Architecture to Characterize Habitability of Venus Cloud Layers via an Aerial Platform

Venus is known for its extreme surface temperature and its sulfuric acid clouds. But the cloud layers on Venus have similar temperature and pressure conditions to those on the surface of Earth and are conjectured to be a possible habitat for microscopic life forms. We propose a mission concept to ex...

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Main Authors: Agrawal, Rachana, Buchanan, Weston P., Arora, Archit, Girija, Athul P., De Jong, Maxim, Seager, Sara, Petkowski, Janusz J., Saikia, Sarag J., Carr, Christopher E., Grinspoon, David H., Longuski, James M., on behalf of Venus Life Finder Mission Team
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/143641