This video makes it look like Venus is much closer to the sun than it actually is (100M km) but still, well done.

2014-07-02: Colonizing Venus

If the thought of Thanksgiving Dinner on Venus gives you the heebie jeebies, you don’t even need to think about plunging into the roiling atmosphere with nothing but a cheap plastic heat shield and a thin balloon to save you from the crematorium that yawns down below. Dangle the bird into the depths of the Stygian hell, feast as someone who walks between worlds and lives on an airship that rides the hell born winds 48km above a surface so hot it glows visibly red.

2014-07-03: Venus is a good fraction of solid surface in the solar system.

2020-09-18: Phosphine on Venus

observations indicate a level of phosphine at 20 parts per billion. That may sound low, but it turns out that from what we currently know, on Venus it’s hard to make anywhere near that much. The phosphine was seen at altitudes of at least 50 km. The environment there is pretty hostile to phosphine, which would decompose fairly rapidly. They estimate that that it should all be gone in less than 1 ka at that level, and probably much faster. So something must be actively making it to keep the levels up. But what?

2021-01-14: Jupiter killed Venus?

we present the results of a study that explores the effect of Jupiter’s location on the orbital parameters of Venus and subsequent potential water-loss scenarios. We argue that these eccentricity variations for the young Venus may have accelerated the atmospheric evolution of Venus toward the inevitable collapse of the atmosphere into a runaway greenhouse state. The presence of giant planets in exoplanetary systems may likewise increase the expected rate of Venus analogs in those systems.

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