This is CBS Eye in the World. This is Hotel Mars episode and continuing with David Livingston,

Dr. Livingston of the Space Show, my colleague in Copilot. And in the Hotel Mars edition,

the subset is Hotel Venus, which is new discovery because NASA's is outbound for Venus soon

enough and the man to help us understand these new probes is David Grinspoon, who introduced

me to the clouds of Venus. Man, he, well, decades, he's right, his decades now. If you

last long enough, you get to be the center of attention. And right now, there's a habitability

of the clouds of Venus conference coming up soon enough. But before that, we need to discuss

first the mission, Da Vinci, that David, David Grinspoon is participating in. David, what

is the mission statement and what do you hope to achieve?

So David will be the first time that we've sent 21st century instruments into the atmosphere

of Venus directly in the atmosphere, not observing it from orbit or from a telescope, but actually

entering the atmosphere, sampling it, taking it into our instruments and really teasing

apart what that atmosphere is made out of. The last time we had an entry probe into Venus

was in 1979, believe it or not. So this has never been done with modern instrumentation.

In the meantime, we've gotten a lot better at building scientific instruments and

at miniaturization. And we know a lot more of the questions we want to ask. So we have

a small number of very well designed scientific instruments that are going to tell us exactly

what those gases are made out of. Look for very small trace amounts of some very interesting

gases, measure the temperature and the pressure on the way down. And then this part is wonderful.

As we approach the surface, we will photograph decent photography of this very mountainous,

very interesting, very mountainous area on the surface that we're going to photograph

and take spectra of as we descend towards the surface. So this will really be the first

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