Rate the following essay on its writing, argument, and language skills:
I think that the author made a very good point about the exploration of Venus. The author is tring to make people understand that, even though Venus is a very inhospitable planet, its still a good idea to study it. The author says that astronomers think that Venus could have once held life.

One piece of textual evidence is in paragraph 4, line 2, it states "Astronomers are fascinated by Venus becuase it may well once have been the most Earth-like planet in our solar system." I chose this quote because the author is telling us that since Venus may have been like earth once before then maybe it had complex life. If complex life is on Earth then maybe complex life was on Venus at some point as well.

In paragraph 7, line 1, it says"NASA is working on other approaches to studying Venus." In this quote he is saying that NASA is already working on more approaches to Venus and, therefore that proves that NASA is still intersted in Venus.

In paragraph 7, line 7, he states"Just imagine exposing a cell phone or tablet to acid or heat capable of melting tin" This quote was chose because the idea behind it is not far fetched because if you use any modern electonics then they would probably melt and, then they wouldn't work. The heat on Venus is far greter than on Earth so we would need a special type of metal to useon those missions.

In conclusion the idea of returing to Venus is not that bad of an idea. The author did a great job explaing why we should go bake to Venus. I understood everything that the author wrote.

Score: 3