Editing First Persistent Venus Aerostat (section)

=== Industrial and Resource Prospecting ===
Later crew rotations, beginning around 2112 CE, devoted increasing instrument time to resource prospecting. Atmospheric sulfur compounds and trace metal aerosols were evaluated as potential feedstocks for in-situ resource utilisation processes. While the FPVA itself carried no industrial processing capacity, its surveys produced prospecting maps that later informed the Aphrodite Station program's decision to incorporate small-scale sulfur extraction demonstrations. The station's long operational record also generated the first reliable wind energy assessments for potential future turbine-based power supplementation, a concept that would be revisited in later Venusian habitation planning.