{"id":110349,"date":"2021-06-03T17:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=110349"},"modified":"2021-06-14T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T09:02:43","slug":"nasa-new-venus-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-new-venus-missions\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s New Venus Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?\u00a0<\/strong>NASA has announced two new <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-findings-related-to-venus\/\"><strong>Venus Missions.<\/strong><\/a> It will examine the planet&#8217;s atmosphere and geological features.<\/p>\n<p>NASA is awarding approximately $500 million permission for development. The missions will be launched between 2028 and 2030.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Which are those two new Venus Missions?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Davinci+ Venus Mission:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Davinci+ <\/strong>stands for Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>The mission will measure the planet&#8217;s atmosphere to gain insight into how it formed and evolved. It will also aim to determine whether Venus ever had an ocean and was possibly habitable.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>: This would be the first U.S.-led mission to Venus\u2019 atmosphere since 1978. The results from the mission could reshape our understanding of terrestrial planet formation in our solar system and beyond.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>VERITAS Mission:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>VERITAS <\/strong>stands for Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim: <\/strong>The mission will map the planet&#8217;s surface to understand its geologic history and investigate how it developed so differently than Earth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The mission will use a form of radar<\/strong> to chart surface elevations and discover whether volcanoes and earthquakes are still happening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Previous Venus Missions:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The US and the former Soviet Union <\/strong>sent multiple spacecraft to Venus in the early days of space exploration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>NASA\u2019s Mariner 2 performed the <\/strong>first successful flyby to Venus in 1962.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Then the Soviets\u2019 Venera 7<\/strong> made the first successful landing on Venus in 1970.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1989,<\/strong> NASA used a space shuttle to send its Magellan spacecraft into orbit around Venus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 2006,<\/strong> the European Space Agency put a spacecraft around Venus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note: Shukrayaan-1<\/strong> is a proposed mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to Venus. It aims to study the surface and atmosphere of Venus. It is expected to be launched in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/nasa-picks-venus-as-hot-spot-for-two-new-robotic-missions-7341904\/\"><strong>Indian Express<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News?\u00a0NASA has announced two new Venus Missions. It will examine the planet&#8217;s atmosphere and geological features. NASA is awarding approximately $500 million permission for development. The missions will be launched between 2028 and 2030. Which are those two new Venus Missions?\u00a0 Davinci+ Venus Mission: Davinci+ stands for Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nasa-new-venus-missions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA&#8217;s New Venus Missions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,1738,9],"tags":[1425],"class_list":["post-110349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-st_4","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700780757,"cached_date":1704450265},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}