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 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. He's 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, Davinci, that David Grinspoon is participating in. David, what is the mission

statement and what do you hope to achieve? So, Davinci 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 administration, 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 in-depth exploration with modern instrumentation

of the atmosphere of Venus, and it will be really the most detailed look that we've had of any

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