A range of concepts for long duration aerial missions,using high altitude balloons operating in the clouds of Venus,have been studied by NASA and JPL for the Planetary Scienceand Astrobiology Decadal
Venus, the Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor, provides a unique natural laboratory for studying plan- etary and climate processes. Despite sharing similarities with Earth, an out-of-control greenhous
Venus has long been of interest in humankind’s understanding of how Earth, and Earth-like rocky bodies, form and evolve in our solar system. A key missing capability for our exploration of Venus are t