A group of scientists from different Universities in the United States has introduced a new way to study Venus using exotic technologies that include balloons, rotor rooms and landing modules resistant to local conditions. They should help to reveal all the secrets of the history and current state of the hellish planet, shrouded in a thick layer of clouds, writes Space.

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According to Noam Aizenberg from Johns Hopkins University, there is a great need to learn more about Venus, which is similar to the ground in size, but is very different from our planet by the presence of a very thick atmosphere and an extremely hot surface. Technologies are needed that could withstand the hellish conditions of the planet and provide new information about the planet, which is sometimes called the evil twin of the Earth.

Now the NASA and the European Space Agency have captured three missions to Venus: the Veritas orbital apparatus, the Davinci device, which should lower the probe into the clouds of Venus, and the Envision apparatus, which should study the Venus from the upper atmosphere layers to the nucleus of the planet.

These devices should provide information about Venus chemistry, the features of its surface and subsoil, as well as about the fate of water on this planet. Scientists also want to find out if Venus was the inhabited world.

There is no doubt that the mission of Veritas, Davinci and Envision will revolution in our understanding of Venus. At the same time, Paul Burn from the University of Washington in St. Louis, says that the next step in the study of Venus should be the study of its atmosphere using aircraft and surface using landing modules, and in the future and all-terrain vehicles that can move over long distances.

Burn says that the study of the clouds of Venus with the help of a balloon can be carried out now, because there are the necessary technologies. A special probe attached to the balloon could study different layers of the atmosphere of Venus.

The scientist also says that modern technologies allow you to create a landing module that could hold out on the surface of Venus for eight hours and even more.

According to Burn, you can also create large aircraft platforms supported by balloons that can work for a year and even more, and launch aircraft on Venus. For example, it can be rotorcraft drones.

Such aircraft will be able to fall very low in the atmosphere of Venus and reach almost its surface for research. Such devices, Burn believes, can even land for a while on the surface. But it is necessary to create electronics that can withstand extremely high temperature. Although there are already some achievements in this area.

But scientists say that to create all these technologies, significant financing is necessary.

As Focus already wrote, the NASA tested fuel for the cosmic nuclear engine. Space ships equipped with nuclear reactors will be able to significantly reduce flight time to other worlds of the solar system.

Focus also wrote that scientists have found a new type of planets located outside the solar system, which was called super-all-in. It turned out that such planets are a lot in space.