Scientists revisit a strange result from one of the Soviet Venus landers

Enlarge / And you thought that sulfuric acid clouds were weird. (credit: ISAS/JAXA) Venus’ atmosphere is rightfully famous for a combination of being stunningly hot and containing sulfuric acid. Those conditions, not surprisingly, have ensured that every bit of hardware we’ve sent through said atmosphere has had an extremely short lifespan. But at least one […]