Come visit the scorching desert! Temperatures are never lower than 460°C, and you’ll really feel the atmosphere as that sultryVenusian air makes you feel like you’re 900 metres underwater.
Even the most gifted tour operator would find it difficult to sell Venus as a holiday destination. Yet scientists think there might be locals there, more suited to its dubious delights. So Earth will send a spacecraft to the Solar System’s second planet – in search of that life.
Was Venus once habitable?
It was out-of-control greenhouse effects that converted the once-temperateVenus into a fierce inferno. It has long been considered pointless to go searching for life in such a hostile environment, but scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) disagree.
According to their studies, it would be possible for microorganisms to thrive in the clouds high above the uninhabitable surface. And they plan a mission to find out if they
