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Dec 11, 2019 · Now superheated by greenhouse gases, Venus’ climate was once more similar to Earth’s, with a shallow ocean’s worth of water. It may even have subduction zones like Earth, areas where the planet’s crust sinks back into rock closer to the core of the planet. “Venus is like the control case for Earth,” said Smrekar.
Mar 15, 2024 · The VERITAS mission to Venus is back on. NASA offered new details about when launch will happen and what scientists hope to learn about the planet. ... The space agency now plans to send a ...
Dec 11, 2019 · Why NASA scientists want to go (back) to this most inhospitable planet. Sue Smrekar really wants to go back to Venus. In her office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the planetary scientist displays a 30-year-old image of Venus' surface taken by the Magellan spacecraft, a reminder of how much time has passed since an American mission orbited the planet.
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Jun 4, 2021 · The news thrilled many in the planetary science community who have been clamoring for decades for NASA to return to Venus. The last NASA mission to target Earth’s sister planet was the Magellan ...
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- The Decade of Venus
The first mission, for which Dyar serves as the No. 2 scientist (Smrekar is No. 1), launches in 2028. The Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy(or VERITAS) spacecraft will spend about six months traveling to Venus, and then roughly three years in orbit. From its perch between 110 and 150 miles above the planet (half t...
As VERITAS orbits Venus, it will be joined mid-mission by the Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging Plus(DAVINCI+). Launching in 2029, DAVINCI+ will, after six months of transit, spend 16 months doing a series of Venus flybys, which it will use to adjust its position as necessary to precisely deliver its payload...
Dyar hopes that, after a decade of disappointment, VERITAS and DAVINCI+ will usher in a decade of action for the Venus community. With modern maps and datasets, the knowledge gap between what researchers understand of Venus and what they understand of Mars will begin to narrow. To really catch up, however, they’ll need to touch down on the surface....
Aug 2, 2021 · The second mission, VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy), will orbit that hell-world from a safe distance, using radar to provide detailed maps of the surface. The VERITAS team hopes to find out if Venus still has active volcanos (which is a…wait for it…hot topic in astronomy right now). They also ...
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Jun 2, 2021 · Earth’s evil twin, here we come. NASA’s next two missions, named DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, are heading to Venus, administrator Bill Nelson announced at a news conference June 2.
