The story "the challenge of exploring Venus" is about a guy who is trying to persuade his readers on why Venus should be explored despite its dangers, Venus is a worthy pursuit despite the dangers because it may well once have been the most earth like planet in our soler system. Venus is a great planet and NASA should explore it because it is earths twin and also because it probably used to have living things or even people, The author tell us that "Venus was probably covered largly with oceans and could have supported various forms of life" he says this which makes us think if Venus really had bodies of ocean and life which also makes NASA think to discover it. In conlusion the author really tries to persuade us by making us wonder and think about how Venuse could be similer to Earth and also makes us think if it did have ife or even bodies of ocean.