We re Off to Venus: NASA Will Send Two Missions by 2030
The two new missions will be the first to reach our closest planetary neighbor Venus in over 30 years. A composite of images taken by NASA s Magellan mission. NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA announced on Wednesday, June 3, that it will be sending two missions to Venus by 2030 in a bid to understand how it became the inferno-like world it is today, a post from NASA explains.
In its post, the US space agency describes how Venus, our closest planetary neighbor, may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and Earth-like climate.
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NASA has announced the selection of its next two Discovery missions, set to launch later this decade.
The VERITAS and DAVINCI+ missions will explore the skies and map the surface of Venus in finer detail than ever before.
This will be the first time NASA sends a probe to our nearest planetary neighbor in over 30 years.
For the first time in over 30 years, NASA will visit Venus.
On Wednesday, the agency announced a pair of new missions, DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, will probe our nearest planetary neighbor starting between 2028 and 2030.
➡ These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during the June 2 livestream touting the missions.
Nasa announce two new missions to planet Venus
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DENVER - To learn more about how terrestrial planets evolve over time, NASA selected the VERITAS and DAVINCI+ missions for its Discovery Program, both bound for Venus. Lockheed Martin will design,. | June 3, 2021