“Picture the first Venus selfie.” And there’s more. With the right balloon technology, you might even have a full-on, Empire Strikes Back-style Cloud City. In short, we could be on the cusp ...

Mars gets all the attention, but Venus might actually be a better candidate for human colonization. Instead of living on the surface, we could build floating cities in its thick atmosphere ...

And while the surface of Venus would remain inaccessible to humans, robots could explore and mine the rocky terrain. The robots could be controlled easily by the cloud city’s citizens itself in ...

Despite Venus being closer to Earth than Mars by ... While a permanent human presence in a blimp-suspended “cloud city” is the ultimate goal, Jones is quick to point out that they’re taking ...

Venus? Surface temperature of 914 degrees Fahrenheit ... as long as you're building Cloud City, you might as well do it right. Star Wars fans may recall that CloudCity is an installation on ...

Venus exploration has been deemed off-limits due to its inhospitable climate -- but NASA believes Cloud City may be the answer. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

The place that is most like the Earth is Venus 50,000 meters. This means that we can blimps and build cloud cities for colonization on Venus. NASA had designed a blimp mission to explore the upper ...

A Bespin-like Cloud City could be coming to Venus. NASA researchers Dale Arney and Chris Jones are busy on a proposal for the next steps for human space flight, and they think that the next step ...

Joe Scott NASA’s Plan to Build Cloud City On Venus (and other questions) Posted: May 7, 2025 | Last updated: May 7, 2025 This week, we answer questions from viewers like you on Patreon! Yes, we ...

Through HAVOC, astronauts would explore the upper atmosphere of Venus, riding above the planet’s clouds in huge solar-powered airships (Cloud City, anyone?). At about 80 miles above Venus ...

The basic idea is to build a floating city of zeppelins manned by astronauts, which would hover in the planet's atmosphere. Venus is extremely ... probably no floating cloud cities anytime soon.

Chris Jones from the Langley Research Center that came up with the city on Venus, said that Cloud City would be a great practice run of going to Mars.