Venus - NASA Science
Venus is a cloud-swaddled planet named for a love goddess, and often called Earth’s twin. But pull up a bit closer, and Venus turns hellish. Our nearest planetary neighbor, the second planet from the Sun, has a surface hot enough to melt lead.
NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study ‘Lost Habitable’ World of Venus
Jun 2, 2021 · NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. Part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics similar to ours – and may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and ...
VERITAS - NASA Science
VERITAS, and another mission called DAVINCI, will be the first NASA spacecraft to explore Venus since the 1990s. Veritas will discover the secrets of a lost habitable world, gathering data to reveal how the paths of Venus and Earth diverged.
Parker Solar Probe Captures its First Images of Venus’ Surface ... - NASA
Feb 9, 2022 · NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has taken its first visible light images of the surface of Venus from space. Smothered in thick clouds, Venus’ surface is usually shrouded from sight.
NASA’s DAVINCI Mission To Take the Plunge Through Massive …
Jun 2, 2022 · In a recently published paper, NASA scientists and engineers give new details about the agency’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission, which will descend through the layered Venus atmosphere to the surface of the planet in mid-2031.
Old Data Yields New Secrets as NASA’s DAVINCI Preps for Venus …
Oct 17, 2024 · Due to launch in the early 2030s, NASA’s DAVINCI mission will investigate whether Venus — a sweltering world wrapped in an atmosphere of noxious gases — once had oceans and continents like Earth. Consisting of a flyby spacecraft and descent probe, DAVINCI will focus on a mountainous region called Alpha Regio, a possible ancient continent.
NASA will be heading back to Venus for the first time in decades
Jun 2, 2021 · NASA will be heading back to Venus for the first time in decades. Two missions will explore the history of the planet's water and habitability. One of NASA’s next missions to Venus will be an...
VERITAS - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
VERITAS, short for Venus Emissivity, Radio science, InSAR, Topography, And Spectroscopy, is a Venus orbiter designed to reveal how the paths of Venus and Earth diverged, and how Venus lost its potential as a habitable world.
Then There Were 3: NASA to Collaborate on ESA’s New Venus …
Jun 10, 2021 · Working in concert, the trio of new spacecraft will provide the most comprehensive study of Venus ever. “I am delighted that the synergistic capabilities of these three new missions will transform our fundamental understanding of Venus,” said Lori Glaze, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division at the agency’s headquarters.
Ongoing Venus Volcanic Activity Discovered With NASA’s …
May 27, 2024 · Direct geological evidence of recent volcanic activity on Venus has been observed for a second time. Scientists in Italy analyzed archival data from NASA’s Magellan mission to reveal surface changes indicating the formation of new rock from lava flows linked to volcanoes that erupted while the spacecraft orbited the planet.