Welcome to the Venus chamber room
And so what we’re talking about here
is the little Venus chambers
that we use to try and simulate
the atmospheric temperature and pressure
at the surface of Venus
And so what we do to do this is have these little chambers
If you follow me coming in here
and this is called VICI:
Venus In-situ Chamber Investigations
it’s a bit of a mouthful
You can come up here
Come come
Alright
Take a look
Look, look, look
Okay
And so
If you go inside
that’s the interior
Exciting, isn't it?
Yes
Anyway, so it's not very much
It's not very exciting
However, it does get us to the temperatures
and pressures that we need
The surface of Venus is around 470°C
which is just under 900°F
That's about the temperature of what a
wood fired pizza oven is like.
So it's incredibly hot and it's not
somewhere you'd want to vacation
one of the different, science investigations
that we perform here are mineral stability
So trying to identify which minerals
could exist under Venus like conditions
what sort of interactions they
might have with the atmosphere
The DAVINCI mission is a mission to Venus
we're sending a descent sphere
into the atmosphere that's going to
be able to take in-situ measurements
from five different instruments
For the first time in over 50 years
by the time we get there.
And I particularly want to know
what's in that lower atmosphere
because we don't know
I feel like I keep saying that we don't know,
but that's what excites me about it
why is it so different than Earth?
why that difference happened
And that's what excites me about it