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 clouds with the help of a powerful radar system to create 3D global maps and a near-infrared spectrometer to figure out what the surface is made of. Together, the instruments would offer clues about the planet’s past and present geologic processes, from its core to its surface,” the release explains. Like VERITAS, the DAVINCI+ mission is another candidate for studying the planet’s atmosphere and trying to decode whether Venus ever had an ocean.

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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

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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 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

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 …

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 …

Space Photos of the Week: Venus Is the Spacecraft-Killer
5 years, 1 month 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 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 …

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