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Venus will be getting a double dose of NASA love.

NASA announced two new missions to Venus on Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor became a hellscape while our own thrived.

NASA announced two new missions to Venus that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how Earths nearest planetary neighbour became a hellscape while our own thrived.

After three decades, NASA's heading back to the "inferno-like" planet.

NASA mission: Why is Venus hotter than mercury? And how long does it take to get there? Photo by MPI/Getty Images NASA have announced two new missions to Venus which are due to launch within the 2028 and 2030 timeframe. According to NASA, “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.” To...

Two new missions to Venus -- DAVINCI+ and VERITAS -- have been selected by NASA. These missions will shed light on how Venus became the inhospitable world it is today, despite the fact that it shares many characteristics with Earth.

NASA Selects 2 New Missions to Venus Both missions will help us understand how Venus became an inferno-like world. By Matthew Humphries (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASAs Discovery Program offers scientists and engineers a chance to design their own planetary science missions and potentially have them funded by the space agency. Two such missions have just been selected, and they both involve a trip to the hottest planet in our solar system: Venus. The characteristics of Venus suggest th...

VERITAS and DAVINCI+ chosen and funded as part of agencys concept selection Laura Dobberstein Thu 3 Jun 2021 // 13:40 UTC Share Copy NASA announced yesterday that it will fund two new missions to Venus to study its atmosphere and topography, both chosen from the Discovery Program. The two missions will seek to understand how Venus made the transition from a theoretically Earth-like climate to becoming the solar system’s hottest planet. Venus is often referred to as Ear...

NASAs InSight Mars Lander Gets a Power Boost The spacecraft successfully cleared some dust off its solar panels, helping to raise its energy and delay when it will need to switch off its science instruments. The team behind NASA’s InSight Mars lander has come up with an innovative way to boost the spacecraft’s energy at a time when its power levels have been falling. The lander’s robotic arm trickled sand near one solar panel, helping the wind to carry off some of the panel’s dust. The ...

NASA Picks Twin Missions To Visit Venus, Earth’s ‘Evil Twin’