I'm glad Venus is getting more attention. Mars seems to get the most attention as a place to visit, but we seem to ignore Venus.
Venus has a few things going for it that I think make it a better choice for permanent human habitation than Mars.
* Venus has nearly Earth-like gravity (8.9 m/s² instead of 9.8 m/s²)
* The atmosphere 50 km above the surface is the right temperature for liquid water, and has a similar atmospheric pressure to Earth at sea level. [1]
* Venus has suffered a runaway greenhouse effect. It's a good place to experiment on how to mitigate or reverse that without risking Earth. And what we do learn may be applicable to Earth in the not-too-distant future.
Venus has a few things going for it that I think make it a better choice for permanent human habitation than Mars.
* Venus has nearly Earth-like gravity (8.9 m/s² instead of 9.8 m/s²)
* The atmosphere 50 km above the surface is the right temperature for liquid water, and has a similar atmospheric pressure to Earth at sea level. [1]
* Venus has suffered a runaway greenhouse effect. It's a good place to experiment on how to mitigate or reverse that without risking Earth. And what we do learn may be applicable to Earth in the not-too-distant future.
[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/200300...