NASA's Plan to Explore Venus with a "SteamPunk" Rover

NASA's Plan to Explore Venus with a

"Venus is too inhospitable for kind of complex control systems you have on a Mars rover. But with a fully mechanical rover, you might be able to survive as long as a year."

"When you think of something as extreme as Venus, you want to think really out there. It's an environment we don't know much about beyond what we've seen in Soviet-era images."

Matthew Williams

Matthew Williams

Matt Williams is a space journalist, science communicator, and author with several published titles and studies. His work is featured in The Ross 248 Project and Interstellar Travel edited by NASA alumni Les Johnson and Ken Roy. He also hosts the podcast series Stories from Space at ITSP Magazine. He lives in beautiful British Columbia with his wife and family. For more information, check out his website.