Another idea suggests cooling the planet down with a giant sun blocker.

The blimps would then use Venus's carbon dioxide atmosphere to float. The shell would fall away to reveal a folded airship, which is just like a floating blimp. Known as HAVOC - High Altitude Venus Operational Concept - NASA scientists proposed sending astronauts inside an 'aeroshell' that would enter Venus's atmosphere at 4,500 mph. So one idea is to build floating colonies that would coast in the clouds. At 50 km above the surface, Venus's atmosphere is quite Earth-like, with atmospheric pressure similar to ours. And while Venus’s atmosphere is a hellscape, it does give us something to work with. It’s also pretty close, we could get there in 5 months versus the 9 months it’d take to reach Mars. And that begs the question, which planet is better to terraform Venus or Mars? To put Venus in perspective, it’s a terrestrial planet with similar size, mass and gravity to Earth. Even with that, Venus is still a potential candidate for terraforming, which is a process that turns a hospitable planet into one that could support life.Īs we continue to over saturate resources on Earth, people like Elon Musk, believe we need to start looking to other planets to call home.

Its air is a suffocating stew of sulfuric acid and carbon dioxide which creates a runaway greenhouse gas problem, and its atmosphere is 90 times thicker than Earth’s, which would literally crush you. Its surface temperature is 864 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hot enough to melt lead. There's a reason why Venus is often called the hell planet.

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