Why NASA won't send humans to Venus

The terrifying things that would happen if NASA sent a human to Venus Venus is a veritable Hell.

NASA Has Finally Built a Computer Chip To Survive on Venus You might wonder why Mars gets all the interplanetary attention when Venus, our sister planet, is actually closer. Well, the hellish orb has the hottest surface in the solar system, hotter even than Mercury. Combined with its dense, caustic atmospher Read more ... e, none of our computers can handle Venus for more...

Column: As a space exploration target, why does Venus get no love? A whole generation of space scientists are mourning what may be the lost opportunity of a lifetime: Earlier this month, when NASA compiled its roster of planetary probes to be launched over the next six years, Venus was left off the list — again.

Transit app begins crowdsourcing data to provide accurate, real-time info If you've ever used transit directions from any app, you'll know that sometimes their estimates of how long a trip can take will be wildly inaccurate. That's true for Transit, too – one of the best transit apps available, but Transit at least wants Read more ... to do something about it, using crowdsourced data f...

Watch Mercury's Transit

NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory Captures Mercury’s Transit Between Earth and the Sun NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the planet Mercury’s May 9, 2016 transit between the Earth and Sun. The transit occurred between approximately 7:12 a.m. and 2:42 p.m. EDT, an…

NASA Had the Best View of Yesterday's Mercury Transit NASA had the best view of the May 9, 2016 Mercury transit of the Sun using their Solar Dynamics Observatory.

HAVOC | SACD HAVOC SMAB Branch MenuCAPABILITIES BRANCH TEAM PROJECTS GALLERY NEWS PUBLICATIONS CONTACT The atmosphere of Venus is an exciting destination for both further scientific study and future human exploration. A lighter-than-air vehicle can carry either a Read more ... host of instruments and probes, or a habitat and…

Why Venus Could Be Colonized Before Mars A NASA study argues that, rather than focusing on a mission to Mars, humans should colonize the clouds above Venus. How would NASA pull this off -- and why?