Goldilocks Zone in the Sky

Venus may be a hellscape at its surface, but rise fifty kilometers above it and something remarkable happens: the temperature drops to room-temperature range, the pressure matches sea level on Earth, sunlight is abundant, and chemical nutrients are everywhere. This episode takes you on a journey upward through Venus's atmosphere to the one place on the planet that scientists actually consider temperate. The cloud layer turns out to be a far more complex and structured environment than it appears from the outside, with distinct layers, multiple types of particles, and a global circulation system that wraps the entire planet in just four days. And once you understand what this place actually is, the question that drives the entire Morning Star missions starts to feel a lot less far-fetched.