• Question: how would you adapt to life on venus?

    Asked by Tanko to Kirsty, Col Op, Andrea on 15 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 15 Jun 2016:

      With a lot of insulation and extreme engineering and life support systems. Maybe. The atmosphere is toxic to humans, the pressure is almost 100 times more than on Earth (things get crushed), the temperatures are the hottest on any planet in the solar system (almost 500 oC) , there’s hundreds of kms of volcanoes on the surface constantly erupting and in general the clouds are sulphur based so it rains acid… :-/ I think the longest a probe survived on the surface so far was two hours…

      Here’s some epic images from ESA’s Venus Express Mission: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Venus_Express

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