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Spacecraft is scheduled to drop spectrometers into the planet's atmosphere in 2031.

/PRNewswire/ -- NASA recently announced the selection of Goddard Space Flight Center's DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry,...

Freeform optics instrument to help probe Venusian mysteries 03 Jun 2021 'DAVINCI+' mission selected by NASA will determine composition of Venus' atmosphere and whether the planet ever had an ocean. NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, one of which will feature an ultraviolet imaging spectrometer based around freeform optics. The cutting-edge instrumentation on board the “DAVINCI+” (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) mission is designed to help reveal how the planet became so hot, when in many respects it is similar to Earth. Planeta...

NASA has selected two new missions to study Venus to understand how Earths nearest planetary neighbour became an inferno-like world when it may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and Earth-like climate.

The VERITAS and DAVINCI+ will aim to understand how and why Venus became supremely hot, even when it shares so many characteristics to Earth.