NASA uses World War I tanks to explore Venus! (video)

NASA hopes to take advantage of WWI tank designs to create a probe capable of adapting to the harsh environment of Venus and staying on the planet for as long as possible.Venus may be a neighbor of the earth, but the gaseous planet is still unknown due to the inability of spacecraft to adapt to volcanoes and lava plains on the planet's surface.

Venus has a temperature of about 462 degrees Celsius, while atmospheric pressure is 92 times the pressure of the Earth's atmosphere.So far, only nine spacecraft have successfully landed on Venus, while many other vehicles have been lost or some have been damaged during the flight.

The Venera 13 probe was one of the most successful missions to Venus, a Soviet probe launched in 1981, which captured the first color images of the planet's surface. The probe was able to send data for 127 minutes before losing contact.NASA, from within its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is seeking to implement the Venus lander program, which can "go down and stay" on the planet.The US space agency says it hopes to use a 24-hour probe, which will have more common ground than it thinks, with World War I tanks or mechanical computers.The idea is to reduce the transmitter electronics as much as possible and use the "gear gear" (a mechanical part of the transmission mechanisms) instead, because the idea is to make the device less sensitive to the harsh conditions of the planet.NASA believes the idea will be a substitute for the development of a $ 3 billion liquefied natural gas cooling system.