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Jun 8, 2021 · With an emphasis on innovative planetary missions, the program is now heading toward Earth’s closest neighbor: Venus. NASA selected two new missions to study the second planet from the sun.
- Just When Did Venus Turn Into The Planet from Hell?
- Was There Ever Water on Venus?
- Could Life Exist in The Clouds?
- What's Under The Clouds?
- What's Under The Ground?
One of the primary things that Dr Kane is interested in is "what makes a planet habitable?" Today, life is not possible on the furnace-like surface of Venus, where temperatures exceed 470 degrees Celsius — that's hot enough to melt lead — created by a runaway greenhouse effect. But scientists such as Dr Kane are trying to work out whether or not Ea...
The DAVINCI+ probe will collect information about temperature, atmospheric pressure and chemistry. "One of the fundamental challenges we have at the moment is that we don't understand the chemistry," Dr Kane said. Venus's atmosphere is primarily made up of carbon dioxide with droplets of sulphuric acid, and is around 90 times thicker than Earth's a...
Studying the atmosphere could also help scientists work out if anything could still – if it ever did – exist in the clouds. Last year, the idea that life could exist in the clouds swirling above Venus was reignited by research that indicated the presence of phosphine in the atmosphere. On Earth, this compound of phosphorus and hydrogen is generally...
What we know about the surface of Venus is patchy. The best data we have was captured by the Magellan mission, which mapped the planet's surface in the 1990s. "But that data is very poor resolution," Dr Kane said. "VERITAS will be able to fix a lot of these problems." Getting better data about the surface of Venus will help scientists understand wh...
We also know very little about what the interior of Venus looks like. Knowing that is important, according to Dr Kane, because we want to know whether Earth and Venus formed the same way. Venus rotates very slowly — in fact only once every 243 Earth days— so we don't know if it has a liquid core like Earth. It doesn't have a moon, so it's very hard...
- Genelle Weule
Jun 3, 2021 · The U.S. space agency said it was awarding about $500 million each to develop the two missions, dubbed DAVINCI+ (short for Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry and...
June 29th, 2021 | 8 min read Science & Engineering. Is Venus still geologically active? Stanford expert explains technology powering NASA’s quest to understand Earth’s twin. Much about Earth’s closest planetary neighbor, Venus, remains a mystery.
Jun 2, 2021 · NASA is awarding approximately $500 million per mission for development. Each is expected to launch in the 2028-2030 timeframe. The selected missions are: DAVINCI+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging)
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jun 3, 2021 · Space Exploration. On the morning of June 2, rumors began swirling that NASA was about to announce its latest choices for interplanetary missions, selecting the long-awaited winners of the agency’s...
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Jun 3, 2021 · Nasa has announced that it is sending two new missions to Venus in order to examine the planet's atmosphere and geological features. The missions, which have each been awarded $500m (£352m) in...
