Returning to Venus

摘要

AMERICAN PLANETARY SCIENTISTS who specialize in Venus are a disheartened bunch, and understandably so: NASA hasn't dispatched a dedicated mission to our sister planet in almost three decades. These scientists don't begrudge spacecraft the agency has sent during that time to Mars, Saturn, Pluto, and other destinations. They d be the first to say that those explorations have made fantastic discoveries and conducted stupefying science. They just want a piece of the pie.