2022
DOI: 10.3390/aerospace9070385
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Venus Life Finder Missions Motivation and Summary

Abstract: Finding evidence of extraterrestrial life would be one of the most profound scientific discoveries ever made, advancing humanity into a new epoch of cosmic awareness. The Venus Life Finder (VLF) missions feature a series of three direct atmospheric probes designed to assess the habitability of the Venusian clouds and search for signs of life and life itself. The VLF missions are an astrobiology-focused set of missions, and the first two out of three can be launched quickly and at a relatively low cost. The mis… Show more

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“…The AFN was selected for the Rocket Lab Venus mission [19], the first of a series of missions envisioned by the Venus Life Finder (VLF) team [20], because of the information it would provide and its small size. Figure 4 shows the proposed system that will carry the AFN through the Venus atmosphere.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The AFN was selected for the Rocket Lab Venus mission [19], the first of a series of missions envisioned by the Venus Life Finder (VLF) team [20], because of the information it would provide and its small size. Figure 4 shows the proposed system that will carry the AFN through the Venus atmosphere.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…See [3] for the detailed description of the AFN instrument development. For discussion of the motivation and overall science objectives of the Venus Life Finder (VLF) missions, see [5].…”
Section: Summary Of Science Goals For the Rocket Lab Missionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For the Venus Life Finder (VLF) [23], we envision an FS Chip configuration, a complex FS System with microfluidics and an autofluorescence microscope (Section 3) that is suitable for the VLF missions that have a larger payload allowance (e.g., Venus Airborne Investigation of Habitability and Life (VAIHL) mission described in [23], as well as in companion papers in the same issue [24][25][26][27]). We describe the FS Chip configuration below.…”
Section: Motivation For Utilization Of Fluid-screen System In the Exp...mentioning
confidence: 99%