Richard Stewart wrote:

I'm wondering if there's any plans for new probes to the surface of
Venus... with todays advancements in heat resistant alloys etc, a new
probe would be able to gather a magnitude more data, and hopefully for
a longer period of time (even a day/night cycle would be good)


That would be some impressive vehicle, given that it would have to
survive for 234 Earth-length days.
Although what would be interesting to do is drop one near what might be
an active volcano at night, and see if you can pick up it's glow.

Pat