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- 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 funding, are due to launch between 2028 and 2030.
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Nov 9, 2017 · Dozens of spacecraft have launched to explore Venus, but not all have been successful. NASA's Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to visit any planet beyond Earth when it flew past Venus on Dec. 14, 1962. NASA is planning two new missions to Venus: VERITAS, and DAVINCI.
- 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 2, 2021 · NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. Part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics similar to ours – and may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and ...
Jun 4, 2021 · Nasa has announced two missions to Venus by 2030 – here’s why that’s exciting. Published: June 4, 2021 8:34am EDT. For decades, the exploration of our solar system left one of our...
- Ian Whittaker
Jun 18, 2021 · In the latest announcement from NASA ’s solar system exploration program, two missions have been given the go-ahead – and they’re both bound for Venus. The two ambitious missions will launch between 2028 and 2030. This marks a considerable change in direction for NASA’s planetary science division, which hasn’t sent a mission to the ...
Jun 2, 2021 · NASA will send two new missions to Venus to learn more about how the planet's hellish atmosphere turned so hostile over its history. The announcement came on Wednesday (June 2) during...
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Jun 10, 2021 · With significantly higher resolution than that of NASA’s Magellan mission, which captured images of Venus in the early 1990s, VenSAR will improve our understanding of the planet’s surface features.
