text: Next he provies a slotuion to these problems but does not have ones that are exceptionally good. The author says that the likness of Venus to Earth is something that is amazing with "a surface of rocky sedimant and familiar features such as valleys, mountains, and craters" (The Challenge of Exploring Venus 4). Although these are interesting they provide little evidence of prevous life and very few reasons to go to Venus. Just because it has hills is no reason to send expensive equiptment or risk lives to go there. He does however give a sloution and safe way to travel to Venus but it has big flaws. He says "imagine a blimp-like vechile hovering 30 or so miles above the rolling Venus" (The Challenge of Exploring Venus 5). While this seems like a fantastic idea there are not only many safety issues but also many other issues with this. It has a big flaw of "only limited insight on ground conditions because most forms of light cannot penetrate the dense atmosphere" (The Challenge of Exploring Venus 4). If the whole point of the mission is to look at the surface of th eplanet then why send a spacecraft that cannot do that. It may seem like a good short tearm idea it is not usesul in the long run and does not give good enough reason to explore Venus.