{"id":297467,"date":"2024-05-30T17:58:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=297467"},"modified":"2024-05-30T17:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T12:28:20","slug":"magellan-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/magellan-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Magellan Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source-<\/strong> This post on<strong> Magellan Mission <\/strong>has been created based on the article<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/nasas-magellan-radar-suggests-volcanoes-on-venus-are-still-active-9356242\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b> &#8220;NASA\u2019s Magellan radar suggests volcanoes on Venus are still active&#8221; <\/b><\/a>published in\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe Indian Express\u201d<\/strong> on 30 May 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in News?<\/h2>\n<p>Recent research has unveiled new signs of volcanic activity on Venus. This new signs of volcanic activity arise from analyses of data collected by NASA&#8217;s Magellan mission, which orbited Venus from 1990 to 1994.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Magellan Mission<\/h2>\n<p>1. <strong>About the Mission-<\/strong> The Magellan mission is an <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">initiative of NASA<\/span> launched on May 4, 1989, from Cape Canaveral using the space shuttle Atlantis. It is the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">first interplanetary mission initiated from a Space Shuttle<\/span>.\u00a0The mission is named after the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, renowned for being the first to circumnavigate the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong>Aim-<\/strong> The main purpose of the Magellan mission was to <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">map Venus&#8217;s surface<\/span>. Venus has a very thick atmosphere which obscures optical observation. This makes radar imaging a necessity for studying its surface.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Mission Duration-<\/strong> Magellan reached Venus in 1990. The mission provided new insights into Venus,<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> revealing a relatively young surface that might have been shaped by extensive lava flows<\/span> from widespread volcanic activity.<br \/>\nIn <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">October 1994<\/span>, the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Magellan spacecraft was deliberately directed to crash into Venus<\/span> to collect valuable data on Venus&#8217;s atmosphere during its final moments. This marks the first deliberate crash of an operational planetary spacecraft.<\/p>\n<h2>Future mission on venus<\/h2>\n<p><strong>1. VERITAS Mission 2031:<\/strong> NASA&#8217;s upcoming mission, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">VERITAS<\/span> (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy), is set for a 2031 launch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Aim:<\/strong> This mission aims to enhance the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">understanding of Venus&#8217;s surface and interior through more precise observations<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Mission Goals:<\/strong> VERITAS will explore why<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Venus<\/span>, despite its similarities in size and composition to Earth, has followed a distinct evolutionary path.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus: Science and technology (Space)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source- This post on Magellan Mission has been created based on the article &#8220;NASA\u2019s Magellan radar suggests volcanoes on Venus are still active&#8221; published in\u00a0\u201cThe Indian Express\u201d on 30 May 2024. Why in News? Recent research has unveiled new signs of volcanic activity on Venus. This new signs of volcanic activity arise from analyses of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/magellan-mission\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Magellan Mission<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738],"tags":[11872,11983],"class_list":["post-297467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-the-india-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297467","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}