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This documentary tells the story of the planet Venus, from its discovery by humans to the potential future and life on the world.
- 34 min
- 20.4K
- CROMWELL ENTERTAINMENT
Learn about two new future missions to Venus and other reasons why the State of NASA is strong and exciting, launching supplies to the space station, and more good news for OSIRIS-REx … a few of...
- 4 min
- 59.6K
- NASA
Jun 3, 2021 · The probes will each cost an estimated US$500 million, and are expected to launch sometime between 2028 and 2030, NASA says. They’ll be the first NASA spacecraft to visit Venus since 1990,...
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...
- 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...
Aug 18, 2021 · The second planet from the Sun, Venus, is often described as Earth’s evil twin, being almost exactly the same size (Venus’ diameter is 12,104 kilometres, just slightly less than Earth’s 12,756 kilometres) but having a climate that has dramatically diverged from our planet’s.
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In this video, we will explore 30 intriguing facts about the planet Venus, our neighboring planet in the solar system. From its thick and toxic atmosphere to...
