Science and Exploration

Coming Soon – Missions Hunting for Life in the Cloudy Skies of Venus

By Leonard David
SpaceRef
August 31, 2023
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Coming Soon – Missions Hunting for Life in the Cloudy Skies of Venus
An encounter with Venus – a first of its kind private sector investigation.
Image credit: Rocket Lab.

Hellish Venus is hot, not only temperature-wise but also as a hot topic for exploration. That cloud-veiled world, scientists have postulated, might be a haven for high-altitude life.

Such a prospect is fostering the first-ever private interplanetary mission to Venus to search for signs of life in the clouds by detecting organic compounds. The mission is planned for launch in January 2025 aboard Electron, a rocket developed by the entrepreneurial launch vehicle provider Rocket Lab.

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Leonard David

Leonard is author of Moon Rush: The New Space Race, Mars – Our Future on the Red Planet, and co-authored with Apollo 11’s Buzz Aldrin of Mission to Mars – My Vision for Space Exploration - all published by the National Geographic Society.