Sunday, February 19, 2012

India Planning Venus Mission

ISRO has announced that it is studying a possible mission to the planet Venus.

It would probably be an orbital probe that makes use of RISAT technology to pierce Venus' thick cloud cover. Personally, I would hope we could get Israel's help in making use of RISAT-2 technology, aka Israel's TecSAR:



I think it would also be cool if one day ISRO could land a probe on the surface of Venus. To date, only the Soviet Venera spacecraft were able to successfully touch down and send back pictures of the surface of Venus.

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I'd like to see images and recordings of lightning in the Venusian atmosphere.

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