Venus Exploration

Venus is also known as the morning star is a planet of our solar system that was named after the goddess of love. The surface temperature of Venus is approximately 450 degrees Celsius and contains clouds that contain sulfuric acid thereby creating and acidic environment. The atmosphere of this planet is considered an extreme environment that will enable extremophiles to survive such as microbes. Phosphine is a colorless flammable gas that is a biomarker found in bacteria making it an indicator of life and has been proposed to be present on Venus. To investigate this theory probes would need to be sent to Venus to take high resolution images, data can be gathered using chipsets and fluorescent lights can be used to detect organic compounds and measure gas acidity within the atmosphere. To do so balloon missions can be used to explore Venus as they are an inexpensive and quick method that can stay within the atmosphere for extended periods of time.