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Building 'Venus on Earth'

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Nasa hopes to have finished building a 12-tonne chamber, designed to simulate conditions on the surface of the planet Venus, by May of this year.

Dr Rodger Dyson, Nasa engineer and leader of the Extreme Environment Test Chamber, explains what they aim to achieve.


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