Why Don’t We Explore Venus If It’s Much Closer To Earth Than Mars?
What is the closest planet to earth? No, it’s not Mars. Although Mars is a famous planet, the title of the closest planet does not belong to it. If we talk about distances, Venus is the closest planet to the earth, although on average, Mercury spends more time near the earth than Venus. How is this possible? And if Venus is the closest planet to Earth, why aren’t there so many missions to explore it?
We live in a time when space exploration is seriously thinking about reaching Mars in the coming years. Even the wealthiest man in the world, Elon Musk, has repeated ad nauseam his goal of wearing the first generation of humans to the red planet as soon as possible.
Currently, this goal is increasingly realistic, and some space agencies such as NASA already have programs that seek to take the first steps to colonize Mars; even so, faced with this panorama, it is valid to ask ourselves, why is this obsession with visiting the red planet and not another, like Venus, which is much closer to earth?
First, why did we say Mercury is the closest planet to Earth? Aren’t Mer
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