NASA plans two new missions to Venus, the first in decades
3 years, 9 months ago

NASA plans two new missions to Venus, the first in decades

Al Jazeera  

Consisting of a fly-by spacecraft and an atmospheric descent probe, the DAVINCI+ mission is expected to return the first high-resolution images of unique geological characteristics on Venus known as ‘tesserae’. NASA on Wednesday announced plans to launch two new scientific missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 — its first in decades — to study the atmosphere and geologic features of Earth’s so-called sister planet. DAVINCI+, consisting of a fly-by spacecraft and an atmospheric descent probe, is also expected to return the first high-resolution images of unique geological characteristics on Venus called “tesserae”. NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, which reached Venus in 1990, made the first global map of the Venusian surface as well as global maps of the planet’s gravity field.

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After Mars and the Moon, now Venus: What is Isro’s Shukrayaan mission?
3 months, 3 weeks ago

After Mars and the Moon, now Venus: What is Isro’s Shukrayaan mission?

Firstpost  

The Narendra Modi-led government has given the green light to ISRO’s Venus Orbiter Mission, known as Shukrayaan, scheduled for a 2028 launch. As India’s maiden mission to Venus, it will focus on exploring the planet’s surface, atmospheric composition, and geological features India is preparing for a major space milestone with its upcoming Venus Orbiter Mission, Shukrayaan, scheduled for launch in …

Isro to launch Shukrayaan to Venus: Why Earth's twin is an engineer's nightmare
4 months ago

Isro to launch Shukrayaan to Venus: Why Earth's twin is an engineer's nightmare

India Today  

The Indian Space Research Organisation is gearing up for one of its most challenging missions yet - Shukrayaan-1, a planned orbiter to Venus. This ambitious project aims to unravel the mysteries of Earth's enigmatic neighbour, but the harsh Venusian environment poses extreme challenges that make it a potential suicide mission for spacecraft. AN ENGINEER'S NIGHTMARE Venus's surface temperature soars to …

Government Approves ISRO’s Shukrayaan Venus Orbiter Mission
4 months ago

Government Approves ISRO’s Shukrayaan Venus Orbiter Mission

Deccan Chronicle  

Shukrayaan, ISRO’s first Venus orbiter mission, is designed to study the planet's atmosphere, surface, and subsurface. The mission will focus on understanding Venus’s extreme climatic conditions, including its dense carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, runaway greenhouse effect, and volcanic activity. Venus, often called Earth’s "twin" due to its similar size, holds clues about planetary evolution and climate change. Key Instruments The spacecraft …

Cabinet okays development of Venus Orbiter Mission
6 months, 1 week ago

Cabinet okays development of Venus Orbiter Mission

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the development of Venus Orbiter Mission for exploring and studying the planet. The 'Venus Orbiter Mission' to be helmed by the Department of Space will involve placing a scientific spacecraft in the orbit of Venus for better understanding of its surface and subsurface, atmospheric processes and influence of the Sun on the …

All about Sukrayaan 1: ISRO's mission to Venus
1 year, 5 months ago

All about Sukrayaan 1: ISRO's mission to Venus

Hindustan Times  

A little over a month after achieving a historic milestone with the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan 3 on the Moon's south pole, and then launching the nation’s first solar mission Aditya-L1, the Indian Space Research Organisation has shifted its focus to Venus. ISRO chairman S Somanath announced on Tuesday that the Venus mission, often informally referred to as Shukrayaan-1, …

NASA's Magellan Data discovers volcanic activity on Venus for the first time
2 years ago

NASA's Magellan Data discovers volcanic activity on Venus for the first time

Hindustan Times  

Space is still widely being explored and studied by numerous researchers worldwide. Now, another discovery that has caught the attention of many shows volcanic activity on Venus. According to Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, geological proof of recent volcanic activity has been found on the surface of Venus for the first time. After carefully studying old radar photographs …

Astronauts should visit ‘hellish’ Venus before going to Mars, experts suggest
2 years, 6 months ago

Astronauts should visit ‘hellish’ Venus before going to Mars, experts suggest

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Venus gets a bad rap because it’s got such a difficult surface environment,” Dr Noam Izenberg of …

Alien life on Venus could be discovered by new probe mission
2 years, 7 months ago

Alien life on Venus could be discovered by new probe mission

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Alien life on Venus could be detected through a new mission to our …

ISRO plans mission to Venus, eyes Dec 2024 launch window
2 years, 10 months ago

ISRO plans mission to Venus, eyes Dec 2024 launch window

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: After sending missions to the Moon and Mars, ISRO is now readying a spacecraft to orbit Venus to study what lies below the surface of the hottest planet in the solar system and also unravel the mysteries under the sulfuric acid clouds enveloping it. Addressing a day-long meeting on Venusian science, ISRO Chairman S Somnath said the Venus …

India can put a spacecraft on Venus in very short time, plan ready: S Somnath
2 years, 10 months ago

India can put a spacecraft on Venus in very short time, plan ready: S Somnath

India Today  

After successfully sending missions to the Moon and Mars that have established India as a space fairing nation, the Indian Space and Research Organisation is ready to send an orbiter to Earth's mysterious twin — Venus. Isro chairman S Somnath, during a one-day meeting to discuss space-based studies, said that the capability of building and launching a mission to the …

ESA, NASA spacecrafts to make two Venus flybys
3 years, 7 months ago

ESA, NASA spacecrafts to make two Venus flybys

India TV News  

Two spacecraft, part of the European Space Agency and the US space Agency NASA, are set to make space history with two Venus flybys just 33 hours apart on Monday and Tuesday. Solar Orbiter, a partnership between ESA and NASA, will fly by Venus on August 9 with a closest approach of 7995 km at 04:42 UTC, while BepiColombo, a …

Destination Venus: A third new robotic explorer on the horizon
3 years, 9 months ago

Destination Venus: A third new robotic explorer on the horizon

Live Mint  

Venus is hotter than ever, with a third new robotic explorer on the horizon. A week after US space agency Nasa announced two new missions to our closest neighbor, the European Space Agency said earlier this week that it will launch a Venus-orbiting spacecraft in the early 2030s. According to the European Space Agency, EnVision's scientific instruments will tackle some …

After Nasa, ESA announces orbiter to study Venus, investigate drastic climate change on Earth's mysterious twin
3 years, 9 months ago

After Nasa, ESA announces orbiter to study Venus, investigate drastic climate change on Earth's mysterious twin

India Today  

Days, after Nasa decided to send two missions to Earth's mysterious twin Venus, the European Space Agency, has announced its own probe for the inhabitable world. While the two Nasa probes DAVINCI+ and VERITAS will enter the Venutian atmosphere, EnVision will determine how and why Venus and Earth evolved so differently, even while being in the habitable zone to the …

Meet DAVINCI+, the spy that will investigate Earth's mysterious twin Venus
3 years, 9 months ago

Meet DAVINCI+, the spy that will investigate Earth's mysterious twin Venus

India Today  

Dubbed as Earth's twin due to similarity in size and location, Venus is a completely different world that remains unexplored. Nasa had last week approved not one but two missions to Venus to study the scorched landscape of the planet that is covered in clouds of sulfuric acid and a thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide at over 90 times the …

Nasa has announced two missions to Venus by 2030 – here’s why that’s exciting
3 years, 9 months ago

Nasa has announced two missions to Venus by 2030 – here’s why that’s exciting

India TV News  

For decades, the exploration of our solar system left one of our neighboring planets, Venus, largely unexplored. In the latest announcement from Nasa’s solar system exploration program, two missions have been given the go-ahead – and they’re both bound for Venus. There are some notable exceptions, such as Nasa’s Pioneer Venus mission in 1972 and the European Space Agency’s Venus …

NASA Is Returning To Venus
3 years, 9 months ago

NASA Is Returning To Venus

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbor, after decades of exploring other worlds. The space agency’s new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new robotic missions to the solar system’s hottest planet, during his first major address to employees Wednesday. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson on Wednesday announced two …

Nasa’s Venus missions to probe fate of Earth’s sister planet
3 years, 9 months ago

Nasa’s Venus missions to probe fate of Earth’s sister planet

Live Mint  

Los Angeles - US space agency Nasa announced plans on Wednesday night to launch a pair of missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 - its first in decades - to study the atmosphere and geologic features of Earth's so-called sister planet and better understand why the two emerged so differently. DAVINCI will measure the composition of the dense, hothouse …

NASA announces two new robotic missions to Venus
3 years, 9 months ago

NASA announces two new robotic missions to Venus

India TV News  

NASA announces two new robotic missions to Venus One mission named DaVinci Plus will analyse the thick, cloudy Venusian atmosphere in an attempt to determine whether the inferno planet ever had an ocean and was possibly habitable. It will be the first US-led mission to the Venusian atmosphere since 1978 NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps …

NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions
3 years, 9 months ago

NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The space agency's new administrator, Bill Nelson announced two …

NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions
3 years, 9 months ago

NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions

Associated Press  

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most overlooked neighbor, after decades of exploring other worlds. The space agency’s new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new robotic missions to the solar system’s hottest planet, during his first major address to employees Wednesday. “These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became …

NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions
3 years, 9 months ago

NASA picks Venus as hot spot for two new robotic missions

LA Times  

An image of Venus made with data from the Magellan spacecraft and Pioneer Venus Orbiter. The space agency’s new administrator, Bill Nelson, announced two new robotic missions to the solar system’s hottest planet, during his first major address to employees Wednesday. “These two sister missions both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at …

A Private Spacecraft Going to Venus Will Look For Signs of Life In Its Clouds
3 years, 10 months ago

A Private Spacecraft Going to Venus Will Look For Signs of Life In Its Clouds

News 18  

The space race since its heyday has seen numerous probes launched by the government, private agencies on Earth to visit celestial bodies in and beyond our galaxy. Ever since the 1961 Soviet-era program began trying to explore Venus, the only spacecraft developed by government agencies have visited the sister planet. Peter Beck, CEO of Rocket Lab, has ambitious plans to …

Venus Might Have Undergone Drastic Climate Change that Dried its Water Bodies, Finds New Study
4 years, 3 months ago

Venus Might Have Undergone Drastic Climate Change that Dried its Water Bodies, Finds New Study

News 18  

The looming threat of the irreversible climate crisis that the earth is facing today has already destroyed our neighbouring planet Venus years ago. Going by results of various research and studies carried out by scientists, it has been inferred that Venus had a habitable climate like earth’s but was destroyed after harmful greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide caused its water …

Why future missions to Venus will not be as easy as they look
4 years, 5 months ago

Why future missions to Venus will not be as easy as they look

Live Mint  

On 14 September, the entire world was waiting for the Royal Astronomical Society’s impending announcement on Venus. One proposed mission is India’s Shukrayaan-1—an Indian Space Research Organisation orbiter that will aim to study the planet’s surface and atmosphere. According to an official statement, the VERITAS spacecraft, proposed for a 2026 launch, would orbit Venus and peer through the planet’s obscuring …

NASA Mulls Possible Mission To Venus After Recent Discovery of Possible Life
4 years, 6 months ago

NASA Mulls Possible Mission To Venus After Recent Discovery of Possible Life

News 18  

WASHINGTON: NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involved in the project said could help determine whether or not that planet harbors life. The U.S. space agency in February shortlisted four proposed missions that are now being reviewed by a NASA panel, two …

Phosphine discovery could threaten Venus.
55 years, 2 months ago

Phosphine discovery could threaten Venus.

Slate  

On Monday morning, the world learned of an exciting discovery: a whiff of phosphine, one of the universe’s most odious substances, detected in the atmosphere of Venus. But that’s exactly what would make finding phosphine on Venus exciting, if the finding holds up: On temperate, terrestrial worlds, phosphine doesn’t form easily, and at least on Earth, it’s only found in …

Life on Venus? Isro's Shukrayaan-1 mission in race to the fiery planet
4 years, 6 months ago

Life on Venus? Isro's Shukrayaan-1 mission in race to the fiery planet

India Today  

Astronomers on Monday said they have found a potential sign of life high in the atmosphere of neighboring Venus. The Indian Space Research Organisation has already proposed a mission to Venus dubbed ‘Shukrayaan-1’, which will orbit the planet and focus on the chemistry of its atmosphere. The report added that NASA had also considered a number of Venus proposals in …

NASA set to reveal mysteries of Venus through VERITAS mission
4 years, 8 months ago

NASA set to reveal mysteries of Venus through VERITAS mission

India TV News  

NASA is all set to reveal the mysteries of Earth's twin planet - Venus. It will also measure Venus's gravitational field in order to determine the planet’s interior and using a near-infrared spectrometer VERITAS will figure out what the planet’s surface is made of. "Determining whether Venus is actively undergoing volcanic activity and understanding what process is driving it is …

Space Photos of the Week: Venus Is the Spacecraft-Killer
5 years ago

Space Photos of the Week: Venus Is the Spacecraft-Killer

Wired  

Nope it’s probably Venus. The planet is named after the Roman goddess of love, and NASA is giving Venus a little extra love right now: It's in the process of evaluating two possible missions to the planet, and both of them have the potential to reshape our understanding of how terrestrial planets form, Venus in particular. Venus is covered in …

NASA shortlists four missions to the Solar System but only two of them will go to space
5 years, 1 month ago

NASA shortlists four missions to the Solar System but only two of them will go to space

Daily Mail  

NASA shortlists missions to map the surface of Venus, identify gases in its atmosphere, look for an ocean on Triton, and hunt for magma flows on Io. NASA shortlists missions to map the surface of Venus, identify gases in its atmosphere, look for an ocean on Triton, and hunt for magma flows on Io The NASA Discovery Program aims to …

Isro asks scientists to submit proposals for experiments to study Venus
7 years, 11 months ago

Isro asks scientists to submit proposals for experiments to study Venus

Firstpost  

With a mission to Venus on its horizon, Indian Space Research Organisation has made an announcement of opportunity for space based experiments to study the planet. Those sending proposals may be currently involved in planetary exploration studies, or development of science instruments for space, or willing to develop the experiments, the space agency said in an announcement on its website. …

Column: As a space exploration target, why does Venus get no love?
8 years, 2 months ago

Column: As a space exploration target, why does Venus get no love?

LA Times  

A whole generation of space scientists are mourning what may be the lost opportunity of a lifetime: Earlier this month, when NASA compiled its roster of planetary probes to be launched over the next six years, Venus was left off the list — again. Although it’s Earth’s closest planetary neighbor — 25.7 million miles away, or roughly half the distance …

Nasa missions to Venus, near-Earth objects and asteroids by 2020
9 years, 5 months ago

Nasa missions to Venus, near-Earth objects and asteroids by 2020

Live Mint  

Washington: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has zeroed in on five key spaceflight missions in its quest to explore Venus, near-earth objects and a variety of asteroids beginning as early as 2020. The submitted proposals would study Venus, near-Earth objects and a variety of asteroids, Nasa said. “The selected investigations have the potential to reveal much about the formation …

Up next for Nasa, missions to Venus and near-earth objects by 2020
9 years, 5 months ago

Up next for Nasa, missions to Venus and near-earth objects by 2020

Firstpost  

In its quest to explore Venus, near-earth objects and bizarre metal asteroids, Nasa has zeroed on five key science investigations among 27 proposals through its ambitious Discovery programme. Washington: In its quest to explore Venus, near-earth objects and bizarre metal asteroids, Nasa has zeroed on five key science investigations among 27 proposals through its ambitious Discovery programme. “The selected investigations …

Transit of Venus: Spotting Earth’s ‘evil twin’
12 years, 9 months ago

Transit of Venus: Spotting Earth’s ‘evil twin’

BBC  

Transit of Venus: Spotting Earth’s ‘evil twin’ The Magellan mission in the early 1990s imaged more than 98% of the planet’s surface, producing vivid maps that showed what lay beneath the clouds. ‘Cloud city’ “When we look at Venus we think this is a planet that once, in the very early solar system, might have been very Earth-like,” says Geoffrey …

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