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Two new NASA missions will uncover the secrets of Venus (Photo / CNN) It's time to revisit Venus, our closest planetary neighbour. Two new missions to Earth's twin have been greenlit by NASA via the agency's Discovery Program. These missions, which were the two finalists selected from four concepts NASA highlighted in February 2020, will shed light on how Venus became the inhospitable world it is today, despite the fact that it shares many characteristics with Earth. One mission would focus on the Venusian atmosphere, while the other would map the planet's surface. Venus may have been the ...

Spaceflight Insider Theresa Cross June 3rd, 2021 An illustration of the VERITAS orbiter, which was one of two missions selected to study Venus at the end of the 2020s under NASA’s Discovery Program. Credit: NASA As part of NASA’s emerging area of research, two new missions have been selected to study Venus as part of NASA’s Discovery Program. The missions, the DAVINCI+ atmospheric probe and the VERITAS orbiter, seek to better understand how Venus changed from being possibly the first habitable planet in our solar system with oceans and near-Earth conditions to an “inferno like world.�...

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 an...

NASA will send two new missions to Venus to learn more about how the planet's hellish atmosphere turned so hostile over its history.

Imagesvenus20191211venus20191211-16.jpeg Venus hides a wealth of information that could help us better understand Earth and exoplanets. NASA's JPL is...