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Paul Dalba

Paul Dalba

Morning Star Missions to Venus

8mo ago

13 min

S1E1: Beautiful Deceiver

Venus is the brightest object in our night sky after the Sun and Moon, a dazzling beacon that captivated humanity for millennia and inspired some of our greatest scientists to predict it was a lush, tropical paradise. They were spectacularly wrong. When the first spacecraft finally pierced those shining clouds, they found a world of crushing pressure, scorching heat, and relentless acid: a hell disguised as a jewel. And yet, the story of Venus doesn't end with that revelation. Because the very planet that fooled us for centuries may still be hiding one more secret — one that would change everything we think we know about life in our solar system.

Paul Dalba

Paul Dalba

Morning Star Missions to Venus

8mo ago

11 min

S1E2: Paradise Lost

Venus today is a world of crushing heat and acid clouds, but the evidence written in its own atmosphere suggests it wasn't always that way.

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