ISRO's mission to Venus: know about Shukrayaan 1

By- srushti sharma

The Venus mission, also known as Shukrayaan-1, is progressing, according to ISRO Chairman S Somanath's announcement on Tuesday

Several payloads are currently being developed, and the mission has been configured.

The planet Venus is highly fascinating. It also has a vibe about it. It has a very dense atmosphere. Acids abound in the atmosphere, which has a pressure 100 times greater than that of Earth.

Perhaps 10,000 years from now, Earth will have changed. This has never existed on Earth. Long ago, it was uninhabitable," Somanath remarked.

The concept for Shukrayaan-1 was conceived in 2012. The ISRO requested payload proposals from research institutions in that year.

The Sanskrit words 'Shukra', which means Venus, and 'Yaana', which means craft, are combined to form the name 'Shukrayaan - 1'.

The mission's main goal is to investigate Venus in depth because it is sometimes referred to as "Earth's twin."

This includes investigating Venus's atmosphere and surface as well as its geological makeup.

NASA has expressed scepticism on the potential of life at this time on Venus