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During its 63-minute descent, DAVINCI will collect and return measurements of Venus' atmospheric composition. DAVINCI is designed to address high-priority NASA decadal science by targeting noble gases, trace gases, and their isotopes, as well as temperature, pressure, winds, and imaging at Venus.
Jun 2, 2021 · Despite the best efforts of scientists eager to study Earth’s sister world, U.S. efforts to send a dedicated spacecraft to Venus languished—until NASA made a surprising announcement.
Jun 29, 2021 · NASA’s 1978 Pioneer Venus mission produced the first crude radar maps. But in the decade that followed, NASA launched no planetary science missions.
May 22, 2023 · NASA's DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigations of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) mission will study Venus from above its clouds down to its surface, investigating how the planet and its dense atmosphere formed and evolved over the past 4.5 billion years.
Apr 5, 2023 · Delays to the first of three missions making the long awaited return to the scorching planet Venus, which scientists say has not had enough robotic visitors in the past decades, might affect the...
Oct 17, 2024 · With three forthcoming missions to Venus — NASA’s DAVINCI and VERITAS, plus ESA’s (European Space Agency) Envision — space data archive staff are helping scientists access data from Pioneer Venus, NASA’s last mission to drop probes into Venus’ atmosphere in 1978.
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Jun 2, 2022 · In a recently published paper, NASA scientists and engineers give new details about the agency’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission, which will descend through the layered Venus atmosphere to the surface of the planet in mid-2031.
