{"id":3925319,"date":"2026-04-06T07:05:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/an-aerobot-with-isru-capabilities-could-explore-venus-atmosphere-for-years\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T07:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:05:04","slug":"an-aerobot-with-isru-capabilities-could-explore-venus-atmosphere-for-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/an-aerobot-with-isru-capabilities-could-explore-venus-atmosphere-for-years\/","title":{"rendered":"An aerobot with ISRU capabilities could explore Venus&#8217; atmosphere for years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Dante&#8217;s &#8220;Divine Comedy,&#8221; Hell is described as an &#8220;inferno&#8221; with nine concentric circles, the entrance of which has a sign that reads &#8220;Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.&#8221; For the planets of the solar system, Venus is about as close to this description as one can get. On the surface, temperatures are hot enough to melt lead (464\u00b0C; 872\u00b0F), while the atmosphere is dense enough to crush a human skull (more than 90 times Earth&#8217;s atmospheric density). However, above the cloud deck, roughly 47\u201370 km (29\u201343 mi) above the surface, temperatures are stable, and the atmospheric pressure is roughly equivalent to Earth&#8217;s.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-aerobot-isru-capabilities-explore-venus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Dante&#8217;s &#8220;Divine Comedy,&#8221; Hell is described as an &#8220;inferno&#8221; with nine concentric circles, the entrance of which has a sign that reads &#8220;Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.&#8221; For the planets of the solar system, Venus is about as close to this description as one can get. On the surface, temperatures are hot [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}