It’s possible, just possible I’ve even suggested that the planet is so terrible it should be pushed into the Sun. While Earth is the beautiful life-filled world we all enjoy, Venus is a tortured hellscape, with temperatures hot enough to melt zinc. The Soviets sent a series of landers to a horrible demise for a glimpse of the surface of Venus in the 70s and 80s. There have been new techniques and technologies in development that might make a serious exploration of the surface of Venus possible again. Exploration that could help us understand why the planet went so horribly horribly wrong.