I’ve actually long wished for a long-term floating atmospheric probe around that altitude in Venus’s atmosphere; I think it could be one of the most favorable places in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial (microbial) life, seeing as there’s lots of all the elements (except phosphate) we know are needed for life readily available, lots of solar energy flux, and a possible-but-unknown early geological history of the planet that could have had an earthly atmosphere and oceans right after the sun formed.
I’ve actually long wished for a long-term floating atmospheric probe around that altitude in Venus’s atmosphere; I think it could be one of the most favorable places in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial (microbial) life, seeing as there’s lots of all the elements (except phosphate) we know are needed for life readily available, lots of solar energy flux, and a possible-but-unknown early geological history of the planet that could have had an earthly atmosphere and oceans right after the sun formed.