text: The author makes learning of these challenges interesting but also very informative. For example, they open their passage talking about the ability to see Venus from Earth which, already from the start, connects us to the issue making it seem more important. They then discuss some of the challenge of exploring saying, "humans have sent numerous spacecraft to land on this cloud draped world. Each previous mission was unmanned, and for good reason, since no spacecraft survived the landing for more than a few hours." This opens us up to listen to why the spacecraft are having such a difficult time landing and makes us want to learn of the diffuculties on this unforgiving journey. The author follows this with more information on the finer details of why exactly the ships do not survive when they say, "A thick apnosphere of almost 97 percent carbon dioxide blankets Venus. Even more challenging are the clouds of highly corrosive sulfuric acid in Venus's atmosphere."