{"id":148703,"date":"2022-10-22T22:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T03:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasa-plan-for-an-instrument-to-withstand-conditions-of-venus"},"modified":"2022-10-22T22:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T03:22:22","slug":"nasa-plan-for-an-instrument-to-withstand-conditions-of-venus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/nasa-plan-for-an-instrument-to-withstand-conditions-of-venus","title":{"rendered":"NASA plan for an instrument to withstand conditions of Venus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-plan-for-an-instrument-to-withstand-conditions-of-venus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within the next decade, NASA\u2019s DAVINCI mission plans to send a descent sphere whistling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/space\/nasa-venus-davinci-probe\/\">through the atmosphere of Venus<\/a>, collecting not only samples of its atmosphere but also high-resolution images of the planet\u2019s surface. But Venus is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/space\/decade-of-venus-exploration-nasa-esa\/\">deeply inhospitable place<\/a>, with surface temperatures hotter than an oven and pressure so great it is like being 900 meters underwater. Now, NASA has shared more details about one of the DAVINCI mission\u2019s instruments and how it will collect vital data in this most challenging of environments.<\/p>\n<p>DAVINCI\u2019s VASI instrument (Venus Atmospheric Structure Investigation) will be responsible for taking readings of the atmosphere as the descent sphere drops through the atmosphere on its 63-minute-long fall to the surface, including collecting data on temperature, pressure, wind speed and direction. This should help answer some long-open questions about the planet\u2019s atmosphere, particularly its lower atmosphere, which remains a mystery in many ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are actually some big puzzles about the deep atmosphere of Venus,\u201d said the science lead for the VASI instrument, Ralph Lorenz of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/goddard\/2022\/davinci-vasi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>. \u201cWe don\u2019t have all the pieces of that puzzle and DAVINCI will give us those pieces by measuring the composition at the same time as the pressure and temperature as we get near the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the next decade, NASA\u2019s DAVINCI mission plans to send a descent sphere whistling through the atmosphere of Venus, collecting not only samples of its atmosphere but also high-resolution images of the planet\u2019s surface. But Venus is a deeply inhospitable place, with surface temperatures hotter than an oven and pressure so great it is like [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148703","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}