>>12909956>does the scientific data it provides actually justify a mission?absolutely yes, because that probe will analyze in dept of one of the only 2 places in this system that has earth-like conditions.
do you know where the other place with earth-like conditions is? on fucking saturn, the moon titan, the only other place in the solar system that has a thick atmosphere, a surface pressure like earth and a ocean of liquid methane.
on venus, at 50km above the surface, we have a place similar to earth, 25°C, pressure like on earth surface, relativately stable and it has clouds.
now thats where similarities end, there is thunder in acid clouds, the climate there is unknown, we don't know the chemical process taking place there, there is phosphine and we don't know what the fuck make it, etc...
it is worth investigating, we have nothing to lose, the probe will be the size of a chair or a kids table, it will never return and it will be relativately cheap to make a 1 way ticket to venus for our probe.
we aren't sending people there to live yet, we are just testing the waters.
its just a weather ball, analyzing the upper atmosphere of a plane
>A more important mission is just dropper newer instruments on a parachutethats a good reason.
