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  1. Jun 4, 2021 · Here's why. NASA's going to send new spacecraft to Venus. Here's why. Venus is hidden by a dense atmosphere of clouds laden with sulphuric acid. (Wikimedia: JAXA/ISAS/DARTS/Meli thev) Venus is the ...

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  2. science.nasa.gov › mission › veritasVERITAS - NASA Science

    VERITAS is a solar-powered Venus orbiter with many similarities to NASA's MAVEN spacecraft at Mars. After arriving at Venus, the mission will use aerobraking to help slow the spacecraft and reshape its orbit. Once it completes aerobraking, VERITAS will circle the planet in a near-polar orbit, at its final science altitude of 250 miles (400 ...

  3. Jun 4, 2021 · On Wednesday, June 2, NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced that the agency would send two new missions to Earth’s inner neighbor by 2030. One of them, DAVINCI+, is an atmospheric probe that ...

  4. 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. DAVINCI is the first mission to study Venus using both spacecraft flybys and a descent probe.

  5. Jun 4, 2021 · It is exciting that Nasa has turned its planetary mission view towards Venus. For any budding astronauts I’m afraid the chance of sending a human there any time soon is non-existent. But, the ...

    • Ian Whittaker
  6. Jun 2, 2021 · This is really exciting stuff," Nelson said. Discovery missions are capped at $500 million, excluding costs for the launch vehicle and mission operations. Both new Venus missions will launch ...

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  8. Dec 11, 2019 · The Return to Venus and What It Means for Earth. Venus hides a wealth of information that could help us better understand Earth and exoplanets. NASA’s JPL is designing mission concepts to survive the planet’s extreme temperatures and atmospheric pressure. This image is a composite of data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus ...