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Welcome to the Venus chamber room

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And so what we’re talking about here

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is the little Venus chambers

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that we use to try and simulate

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the atmospheric temperature
and pressure

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at the surface of Venus

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And so what we do to do this
is have these little chambers

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If you follow me coming in here

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and this is called VICI:

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Venus In-situ
Chamber Investigations

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it’s a bit of a mouthful

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You can come up here

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Come come

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Alright

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Take a look

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Look, look, look

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Okay

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And so

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If you go inside

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that’s the interior

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Exciting, isn't it?

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Yes

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Anyway, so it's not very much

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It's not very exciting

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However, it does get us to the
temperatures

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and pressures that we need

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The surface of Venus is around 470°C

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which is just under 900°F

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That's about the temperature
of what a

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wood fired pizza oven is like.

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So it's incredibly hot and it's not

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somewhere you'd want to vacation

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one of the different,
science investigations

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that we perform here
are mineral stability

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So trying to identify which minerals

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could exist under Venus like conditions

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what sort of interactions
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might have with the atmosphere

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The DAVINCI mission is a mission to Venus

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we're sending a descent sphere

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into the atmosphere that's going to

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be able to take in-situ measurements

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from five different instruments

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For the first time in over 50 years

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by the time we get there.

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And I particularly want to know

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what's in that lower atmosphere

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because we don't know

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I feel like I keep saying that
we don't know,

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but that's what excites me about it

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why is it so different than Earth?

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why that difference happened

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And that's what excites me about it