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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) NASA's 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 that it may have been the first habitable world in the solar system at one point in the distant past,...
NASA's first missions to Venus since 1990 aim to deepen our understanding of why a planet with many similarities to Earth became uninhabitable.
Each mission has an estimated cost of $500m, with launches expected between 2028 and 2030.
VERITAS and DAVINCI+ chosen and funded as part of agency's 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 Earth's "sister planet" and shares a similar size, mass, position, and composition. It may provide hin...