If a probe could burrow itself into the surface of Venus... Would it find cooler temperatures, like desert-dwelling critters on Earth have used to escape the furnace of their mid-day world? 

Probably not something we'll be able to build for such an extreme environment, at least not anytime soon, but I was watching some Planet Earth episodes on the deserts and this idea crept into my head. Maybe even just a well-protected surface module with a deep-penetrating mole that can bore a hole to run a heat exchanger into the crust like we use for geothermal heating and cooling of homes.