FLOATING COLONIES ON VENUS
It’s incredibly hot, with a searing average temperature of over 460 degrees Celsius (860 degrees Fahrenheit). Its atmosphere is thick with choking carbon dioxide, laced with poisonous sulphuric-acid clouds that hang above a parched desert-like landscape, renewed by the angry eruptions of volcanoes. Without a doubt Venus – with its additional high-pressure environment that has a crushing power almost 100 times that of Earth’s – is unfriendly for life. Sending astronauts to a world that can cook, crush and choke in just
