{"id":147142,"date":"2022-09-27T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-say-we-should-prioritize-a-human-mission-to-venus-before-mars"},"modified":"2022-09-27T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T20:23:01","slug":"scientists-say-we-should-prioritize-a-human-mission-to-venus-before-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-say-we-should-prioritize-a-human-mission-to-venus-before-mars","title":{"rendered":"Scientists say we should prioritize a human mission to Venus before Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BvXa1n9fjow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mars isn\u2019t going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing as Venus has a hellish surface temperature, hot enough to melt lead, you wouldn\u2019t think scientists would be clamoring to send humans to the fiery planet. Then there\u2019s the crushing atmospheric pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Still, as per a report by The Guardian, a group of space experts is campaigning to shift the focus away from human exploration of Mars and towards first sending a crewed mission to our nearest neighbor, Venus.<\/p>\n<p>The case for a crewed Venus flyby.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Buradaki\/iStock.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/scientists-say-we-should-prioritize-a-human-mission-to-venus-before-mars\">Continue reading \u201cScientists say we should prioritize a human mission to Venus before Mars\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars isn\u2019t going anywhere. Seeing as Venus has a hellish surface temperature, hot enough to melt lead, you wouldn\u2019t think scientists would be clamoring to send humans to the fiery planet. Then there\u2019s the crushing atmospheric pressure. Still, as per a report by The Guardian, a group of space experts is campaigning to shift the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}