Today, Venus and Earth don’t have a lot in common other than being about the same size and orbiting the same star. Venus has crushing atmospheric pressure and a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead. However, Venus might have been more Earth-like in the past.
There hasn’t been a Venus lander since 1984. But NASA wasn’t willing to settle for that. They’ve made a materials science tour de force, resulting in new integrated circuits capable of withstanding the surface of Venus.
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