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Venus was once Earths identical twin how did it turn into an inferno?
University of Southern Queensland Adjunct Professor Stephen Kane is helping solve the mysteries of our brightest star.NASA has greenlit two new missions to help solve the mysteries of Venus, an inferno-like world that may once have been habitable (complete with an ocean and Earth-like climate).
One billion dollars has been set aside for VERITAS and DAVINCI+, launching in 2028 and 2030, and University of Southern Queensland Adjunct Professor Stephen Kane, based at the University of California (Riverside), helped devise both plans.
DAVINCI+ will explore Venus’s atmosphere to understand how it formed and evolved, while VERITAS will map the planet’s surface to investigate its geologic history and why it developed so differently than Earth.