NASA Engineers Want This Steampunk Rover to Uncover Venus’ Secrets
NASA Engineers Want This Steampunk Rover to Uncover Venus’ Secrets
Venus is a spacecraft killer and always has been. Because of its hellish conditions, NASA JPL engineers are designing a new type of rover that could finally explore our mysterious neighbor.
These wind-powered mechanical creations can walk, store energy, and even react to their environment. These creatures are awesome and amazing in the way they operate, and that it’s all through a mechanical system that you can see and observe…
If it was up to this NASA JPL engineer, these self-propelled creatures would be exploring one of the most mysterious planets in our solar system… Venus is the exoplanet in our own backyard.
The really important reason for going to Venus is to complete our picture of terrestrial planets with atmospheres in our own solar system so that we know which planets in other star systems could potentially harbor life.
We just need to find a way to survive Venus’ unforgiving environment, where lead melts and most electronics are destroyed before even touching the ground.