If there is one patch of solid soil in the solar system that you should never visit, it is the surface of Venus. Even hardened robotic probes are not suitable for the job there, scientists say.
One of the last to try this is the Russian Venera 13 lander, which barely lasted 2 hours there before "dying". “Venus is very, very corrosive. It looks like hell on Earth. It's very tough,”said Gustavo Costa, a chemist at NASA's Glenn Research Center.
If anyone can be trusted, it is him, as he works in a 14-ton steel chamber that can accurately recreate the toxicity, suffocation, and hot conditions on the surface of Venus. NASA launched this project for the first time in 2014, allowing Kostya and other researchers to expose all kinds of metals, ceramics, wire, mesh, plating and electronics to a tiny version of Hell to see what might survive and what would be destroyed. It turned out that walking on the surface of Venus is inevitable death.
The second planet from the Sun was, and still is, very similar to Earth. It is rocky and has approximately 82% mass and 90% Earth's gravity. That is, if you weigh 90 kilograms on Earth, you would feel about 9 kilograms lighter on Venus.
Venus also has a constant atmosphere and orbit in the solar "habitable zone" where water can exist in a liquid state. Some researchers believe the planet was once warm, had shallow oceans, and was generally comfortable for life for about 2 billion years. But Venus lost its water, carbon dioxide began to litter the atmosphere, and because of the rampant global warming, it burned itself to the ground.
“It's hard to imagine this. I guess it would be like having a person shoved inside a pressure cooker. Although your death will not end with this torture: the atmosphere of Venus also spews out huge amounts of hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen sulfide and sulfuric acid. These are extremely dangerous chemicals that can either dissolve human flesh or poison our bodies. Instead of having clouds of water vapor, Venus has clouds of sulfuric acid. And you have to go through them just to get to the surface. It's scary,”Costa said.
Burmas Roman