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NASA’s New Robotic Mission To Venus
Source : Indian Express

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NASA announced two new robotic missions to the solar system’s hottest planet Venus.

Key Facts
  • Both aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world capable of melting lead at the surface.
  • One mission named DaVinci PlusNASA's New Robotic Mission To Venus
    • It will analyze the thick, cloudy Venusian atmosphere in an attempt to determine whether the inferno planet ever had an ocean and was possibly habitable.
    • A small craft will plunge through the atmosphere to measure the gases.
    • It will be the first U.S.-led mission to the Venusian atmosphere since 1978.
  • Second Mission called Veritas
    • It will seek a geologic history by mapping the rocky planet’s surface.
    • New missions will give fresh views of the planet’s atmosphere made up mostly of carbon dioxide down to the core.
Earlier Venus Mission
  • NASA’s Mariner 2 performed the first successful flyby in 1962.
    • In 1989, NASA used a space shuttle to send its Magellan spacecraft into orbit around Venus.
  • The European Space Agency put a spacecraft around Venus in 2006.
  • Soviets’ Venera 7 made the first successful landing in 1970.
NASA
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration is America’s civil space program.
  • They conduct research, testing, and development to advance aeronautics, including electric propulsion and supersonic flight.
  • NASA develop and fund space technologies that will enable future exploration and benefit life on Earth.
  • NASA had 20 centers and facilities across the country.

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