text: The argument for this article is simply "Should we try to study Venus again?" and the author believes we should, after they weighed out some of the challenges that were in our way then and are in our way now. Paragraph 3 states "A thick atmosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfric acid in Venus's atmosphere. On the planet's surface, temperatures average over 800 degrees Fahrenheit, and the atmospheric pressure is 90 times greater that what we experience on our own planet." These facts are about the surface of the planet, and as the author also states in paragraph 3, "these conditions are far more extreme than anything humans encounter on Earth; such an environment would crush even a submarine accustomed to diving to the deepest parts of our oceans and liquefy any metals."