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Deployable Structures for Venus Surface and Atmospheric Missions

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“Venus, the “greenhouse planet”, is scientifically fascinating place.” (Landis G, NASA). Based on the fact of growing interest in Venus exploration, backed by the US National Academies of Sciences’ listing of the Earth’s “hellish twin” as one of the mission destinations with high priority, exploration mission architectures for Venus are expected to respond to operational expectations that are higher than the early period of Venus missions. High profile missions point out the need for more capable, more flexible, better designs.

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The author would like to thank Elif Erdogdu, Sandra Häuplik-Meusburger and Stephen Ransom for providing the visuals and conducting reviews respectively.

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Ozdemir, K. (2015). Deployable Structures for Venus Surface and Atmospheric Missions. In: Badescu, V., Zacny, K. (eds) Inner Solar System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19569-8_15

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