According to the developers, the device will power electronics energy solar panels. Note that the conditions on Venus complicate the study of the characteristics of the planet wrapped by clouds of sulfuric acid. In addition, the atmosphere of Venus is full of mostly carbon dioxide, and the atmospheric pressure is hundreds of times larger than the Earth.
Until now, the record length of the lander on the surface of Venus, which put the Soviet automatic interplanetary station Venera-13, was just over two hours.
Employees of the Research Center NASA develop an apparatus which, according to their forecasts, will work on Venus for a month, gaining energy from the environment.
The device is designed as a three-wheeled sailboat several meters high. It will move around the planet in the wind. However, mostly sailing will be on-site, by analyzing the soil around them. Travel time will be about 15 minutes a day.
Apparatus equipped with solar panels with a total area of 12 square meters. Electronics sailboat, according to the calculations of developers will have to withstand temperatures up to 450 degrees Celsius.
We note, in the past year, U.S. and Russian scientists produced the first complete geological map of Venus. It has helped scientists to figure out what life in the geological period of Venus, there were two - the tectonic and volcanic his successor.
