Venus Exploration: The Venus rover

MISSION OBJECTIVE

• The point of the mission is to a find habitable zone
• The rover will track across the terrain of Venus in hopes to find life.

Flight Crew:
This mission won't require any astronauts aboard the space craft. Similar to the other rover missions, the space craft will land and drop off its cargo. This is a one way trip.

SUPPLIES NECESSARY

• Cameras. Mast Camera (Mastcam) Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) Spectrometers Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) Chemistry & Camera (ChemCam) Chemistry & Mineralogy X-Ray Diffraction/X-Ray Fluorescence Instrument (CheMin) Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Instrument Suite

CONTINUED

• Radiation Detectors Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) Environmental Sensors Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) Atmospheric Sensors Mars Science Laboratory Entry Descent and Landing Instrument (MEDLI)

Mission Time
We will plan on sending the rover on a 30 day mission. However mission time may be added depending on how long the rovers power can last. Rover missions to Mars were setup around these parameters however, both Mars rovers well lasted their mission time and actually got mission extensions longer than the original planned trip.

Continued...
The time it takes to fly to Venus according to NASA's sources, is just around a 110 days. Thus the total planned time of the mission along including travel will be around 140 days.

Mission Funding:
To initially send the rover to Venus without extended mission time will cost around 820 million dollars. However, Mars rover missions would increase in cost as the rover spent more time on the planet.

The mission patch shows a rover similar to the Mars one but instead it is a Venus rover.