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cosmolinguistThere are lots of great quotes in this article about NASA's newly announced missions to Venusmother_bones had already told me missions to Venus had been approved before I read it...and indeed the title of this told me the same thing if I'd been paying attention to it, heh.
It was persuasive too: as I said when a Mastodon friend who's a planetary scientist asked today what everybody's favorite planet is (apparently a question they saw on someone's okcupid profile!), I said "I have such big love for Uranus and Neptune because we know the least about them, they're the underdogs of the solar system." So having only heard the destinations of the four projects, I would've been tempted to go for the Triton one. But by the time I was halfway through reading this, I was sold on Team Venus. I felt like I'd been on a big emotional journey by the epilogue.
Anyway, what's your favorite planet? The planetary scientist made it clear that this definition includes moons and asteroids and dwarf planets and stuff.
Currently, the Venus community is a bit like Boston Red Sox fans prior to 2004, who lived under the ‘curse of the Bambino’ for endless decades.Pull-quotes aside, this is a long and compelling article, I really loved how it made me hold my breath along with the teams even though
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Instead, he says, Venus is “a planet nobody has given a shit about for 30 years.”
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“Venus doesn’t really have [a PR campaign],” Sousa-Silva says, “probably because you can’t plant a flag on it.”
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When he got to his phosphine slide, he said, “I don’t know what it means, and I don’t care. All I care about is that we’re talking about Venus!”
mother_bones had already told me missions to Venus had been approved before I read it...and indeed the title of this told me the same thing if I'd been paying attention to it, heh. It was persuasive too: as I said when a Mastodon friend who's a planetary scientist asked today what everybody's favorite planet is (apparently a question they saw on someone's okcupid profile!), I said "I have such big love for Uranus and Neptune because we know the least about them, they're the underdogs of the solar system." So having only heard the destinations of the four projects, I would've been tempted to go for the Triton one. But by the time I was halfway through reading this, I was sold on Team Venus. I felt like I'd been on a big emotional journey by the epilogue.
Anyway, what's your favorite planet? The planetary scientist made it clear that this definition includes moons and asteroids and dwarf planets and stuff.