The one-way trip should help scientists crack the planet's mysteries.
as it makes its hellish descent and enters the planet's crushing lower atmosphere.
."We don't have all the pieces of that puzzle and DAVINCI will give us those pieces by measuring the composition at the same time as the pressure and temperature as we get near the surface."The dense atmosphere of Venus hides several mysteries, including how it is structured, as well as how the planet's many volcanoes have interacted with it over the eons.
"The long-term habitability of our planet, as we understand it, rests on the coupling of the interior and atmosphere," Lorenz said."The long-term abundance of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, which we really rely on to have kept Earth's surface warm enough to be habitable over geologic time, relies on volcanoes.
"Venus is hard. The conditions, especially low in the atmosphere, make it very challenging to engineer the instrumentation and the systems to support the instrumentation," Lorenz said."All that has to be either protected from the environment or somehow built to tolerate it."
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