SciShow Space: Why Venus is THE WORST

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: Go to http://curiositystream.com/scishow to start streaming Living Universe. Use the promo code ‘space’ during the sign-up process. Venus is once thought to have been very earth-like and pleasant, but now it's considered a harsh wasteland that we wouldn't even send a robot to. Venus is once thought to have been very earth-like and pleasant, but now it's considered a hellish wasteland that we wouldn't even send a robot to. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Pleasant Venus: https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL069790 Venus stats: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/in-depth/ Deepest “dive”: http://archive.rubicon-foundation.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/2203/7742710.pdf?sequence=1 Venera: https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/venera.html Engineering concerns: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2017_Phase_I_Phase_II/Automaton_Rover_Extreme_Environments/ High temp computing: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1192511 Lake beds: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1242777 Hot springs: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09903.pdf Asteroids watering earth: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/4/eaar2632 Water on Itokawa: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/5/eaav8106 Amino acids: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9783527631766.fmatter Mercury stats, carbon melting point, etc.: Wolfram Alpha. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/in-depth/


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