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Doing Science in Hell

S1 · E4 · 02 Sep 2020 · 9 min

At Venus' surface, the temperature is twice as high as in a pizza oven. The atmospheric pressure would make you feel like being 1 kilometer deep in Earth's oceans. Yet visionary engineers are pushing the boundaries of materials science to build probes that can deliver data from the depths of this crushing inferno. Experts describe their battle strategies and technologies.