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 Plus
- 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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