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1. www.nationalgeographic.com › science › articleNASA will head to Venus for first time in roughly 30 years

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   Jun 2, 2021 · NASA had a surprise in store for planetary scientists today: During a “State of NASA” briefing, the agency announced that roiling, toxic Venus will be the target of the next two missions in ...

2. www.lpi.usra.edu › planetary_news › 2021/06/21NASA Will Return to Venus with Two New Missions

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   Jun 21, 2021 · As part of NASA’s Discovery Program, these two missions were selected from a competitive slate of four mission concepts. They will be NASA’s first dedicated explorations of Venus since the Magellan mission ended in 1994. The selected missions offer complementary investigations of Venus’ atmosphere and surface.

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4. www.cnn.com › 2021/06/02 › worldTwo new NASA missions will uncover the secrets of Venus - CNN

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   Jun 2, 2021 · The NASA Discovery Program, which is sponsoring these missions, encourages scientists and engineers to help us explore the solar system by designing new, imaginative mission concepts.

5. astronomynow.com › 2021/06/04 › after-a-30-yearAfter a 30-year hiatus, NASA is returning to Venus with two ...

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   Jun 4, 2021 · Three decades after NASA’s Magellan mission came to an end, the U.S. space agency is returning to cloud-shrouded Venus with two cost-capped Discovery-class missions, one to map the world with a cloud-penetrating radar and another that will plunge into the atmosphere for a dramatic hourlong descent to study its chemical composition.

6. spacenews.com › nasa-selects-two-venus-missionsNASA selects two Venus missions for Discovery program

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   Jun 2, 2021 · WASHINGTON — For the first time in more than three decades, NASA has announced it will send a robotic mission to Venus, selecting two proposals in the latest round of its Discovery program. NASA ...

7. www.jpl.nasa.gov › news › nasa-selects-2-missions-toNASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus

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   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 Earth-like climate.

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   Will roiling Venus be a target for NASA's Discovery Program?

   • NASA had a surprise in store for planetary scientists today: During a “State of NASA” briefing, the agency announced that roiling, toxic Venus will be the target of the next two missions in its highly competitive Discovery program.

   NASA will head to Venus for first time in roughly 30 years

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   How many NASA missions have visited Venus?

   • Only two NASA missions have visited Venus – Pioneer in 1978 and Magellan in the early ’90s. The ocean was first suggested by NASA’s Pioneer mission. But given its placement as the second planet from the sun, Venus wasn’t considered conducive to sustaining an ocean.

   Two new NASA missions will uncover the secrets of Venus - CNN

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   How much does a NASA Discovery mission cost?

   • NASA’s Discovery program supports smaller, less expensive missions than those in its New Frontiers and flagship categories. Launching roughly every 36 months, Discovery missions are typically capped at $450 million, excluding launch vehicle and mission operations costs, while New Frontiers expeditions are capped at $850 million.

   NASA will head to Venus for first time in roughly 30 years

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   What is the NASA Discovery Program?

   • The NASA Discovery Program, which is sponsoring these missions, encourages scientists and engineers to help us explore the solar system by designing new, imaginative mission concepts. Since 1992, the program has supported development for more than 20 scientific instruments and missions.

   Two new NASA missions will uncover the secrets of Venus - CNN

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   When was Venus launched?

   • The team was gathered at a news conference at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington to announce the satellite's successful launch. It had been launched a few hours before, on January 31, 1958. Two new missions to Venus -- DAVINCI+ and VERITAS -- have been selected by NASA.

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   What did you learn from the Venus mission?

   • “Last U.S. Venus mission launched in 1989, year I finished grad school. So much to learn about climate, history of Earth-like worlds & life in the universe.” Two spacecraft aim to solve deep mysteries about the nearby planet, including why it resembles a hellish, toxic version of Earth.

   NASA will head to Venus for first time in roughly 30 years

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9. www.newscientist.com › article › 2279621-nasa-isNASA is sending two missions to Venus for the first time in ...

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   Jun 2, 2021 · NASA has selected two missions to Venus, called DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, to launch between 2028 and 2030, marking the agency’s first return to our sweltering neighbour since 1989