It's density that matters, and Venus has a very dense atmosphere. If you go high enough it becomes Earthlike in some ways. Landers can get certain data that is impossible to obtain from afar. Same reason we land on Mars. I have no idea how you'd begin to make a rover for Venus. It would break down in hours or you'd need to invent computers that can operate at several hundred degrees.
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Drilling does do that sometimes but you can just nuke the hellfire away
Believe it or not but the core is deeper than 10 kilometers
Why would you even want to use the sky crane system on Venus? It has a thick atmosphere. You use a more appropriate landing mechanism. And if your lander that's gonna be destroyed in a couple hours costs a billion dollars then that's just an issue with production. Produce several, relatively unsophisticated landers and reserve the billions of dollar missions to like an airship or something.
Mr. Bakanov explained that unique scientific schools operate in Russia: they are focused on the study of Venus, the Moon, and Mars. According to him, no one in the world has replicated the Russian [sic] technology of landing on Venus yet.
What a joke... This is 1970s & 80s Soviet technology that has not been replicated by anyone else, Russian Federation included. Great Russian chauvinism moment.
Better to ignore reactionaries' proclamations (which generally serve as a distraction) and do a proper analysis of their politics. This is just classic parents' & priests' rights (to abuse children) stuff, which of course is a result of property & class rule.
Pettis is a disciple of Gordon Chang basically
Yes exactly which is why flight on Mars is kind of tricky and flight on Venus (ignore the acid) or Titan is a lot easier